[mythtv-users] continuing RS/6000 discussion

[Kathy Bohrer]

David wrote:
  
[1] And the backend needs a tuner.
[2] I'd look at work but ours are a few years old and I spend enough 
time
on the horror that is the ibm website at work to start looking there 
from
home to find out.
[3] They're no longer pSeries, they're been rebranded to System p
   
  Well, I was looking at old systems, from around 2001. They have PCI slots, but no PCI Express. However, they have nice graphics cards with Linux drivers made by IBM.
   
  Anyway, I don't think I want the headaches of dealing with byte swapping problems, etc. on my first attempt to run MythTV. I'll go ahead and build an Intel system.
   
  Thanks,
  - Kathy

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