Gamester17 Wrote:AOpen, (not ASUS), AOpen MiniPC is as small as a Mac Mini as uses a Intel GM965 chipset with Intel GMA X3100 and yes special code have been implemented in the XBMC to support this chip and GPU even though it does not support OpenGL 2.0
http://minipc.aopen.com
The latest Mac Mini which features Core2 Duo processors uses Intel GM945 with GMA950 GPU, ...D4rk who implemented the special code for the Intel GM965 chipset with Intel GMA X3100 has said that it may work for that Intel GM945 chipset as well (maybe it is good enough for 720p), but no garantees.
Thanks very much Gamester17. Yes, I recall another thread somewhere where Yuvalt (lead Linux coder) said he had the Aopen Mini in his living room! No wonder the special case has been added. I wonder if d4rk has one too.
* Iceman-UK will prolly get the Aopen Mini 965 with the best C2D I can afford.
Anyhow I have a few ideas:
Idea A:
I had an idea of producing a user-editable database of hardware that people are using to run XBMC-Linux on. Maybe in Wiki format whereby there is one page per machine and multiple pages per user. On the page they can list in several fields the CPU, mobo, RAM, HDD, videocard etc. They are also able to upload photos of the case and the thing in action. Perhaps also with FPS/freetext benchmarks against a selection of reference clips that the community could produce.
The benefit of storing this stuff in structured fields is that I can produce stats of the "average system", "most popular CPU", "how many users are running C2D T7700" etc. This may be useful to users wanting to build their own system and to Team-XBMC who can use it for average system profiling and what the average user is running. Or Team-XBMC may ignore it totally which is also fine but the user community may value it. We/I/someone would maintain it because Team-XBMC have too many other plates juggling in the air. The website would be seperate from this.
This idea was inspired by the "Slug" (
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/) whereby there is a huge, long wiki page showing that cool applications people are using it for:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Info/Wha...irSlugsFor
Folks are putting their Linux-XBMC success stories in the forum which is all well and good... but it's unstructured and messy.
Idea B:
Now this is way ahead (and maybe "way out there"), but it would be cool if the XBMC-Linux "Live CD", on installation could automatically "call home" and submit the hardware profile of the machine in a database somewhere. I got this idea from being on the SmoothWall Express Team (
http://smoothwall.org). I was/am the developer of the my.SmoothWall system (
https://my.smoothwall.org) whereby we do just that. In fact, we go one step further and give each installed system a unique ID and tie each system ID to a user account, with simple online management of registered systems etc. A cool idea we had was that one could store the SmoothWall Express firewall config in this account in an automated way perhaps. Scale this to XBMC where one could tarball the UserData folder and store into this online account.
You could produce some really nice stats from such a database that may help shape the future direction of XBMC-Linux in some fashion.
My 2 UK pence worth.