[linux-audio-user] shuttle xpcs as linux music boxes?

[Rob]

On Friday 27 February 2004 18:44, glyn wrote:
> i'm currently mulling over the idea of getting one of those
> really small shuttle xpcs for use as a quasi-portable
> linux-based audio box/desktop replacement, and was wondering
> if anybody had used them before and had suggestions or
> encountered caveats/hardware problems/quality control

I installed Mandrake 9.2 on one that I gave my brother for xmas, 
an Athlon 2400+ with 512MB of RAM, and it worked perfectly.  
Possibly the smoothest installation I've ever done, though 
that's partly because it was limited-use (basically just a 
custom menu in Gambas that let them run 14 different Linux 
games.)  It was running alsa, I think, but I never tried 
recording or anything like that.  And it was super, super quiet 
though I do think it still had a fan.

I would want to use an outboard DAC or USB/firewire sound module, 
but I fully intend to make my next desktop one of those things 
and to do audio work on it.

Rob