Thanks Jeremy, I was checking out what VIA has to offer for its C7 (<a href="http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/mainboards/via_c7">http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/mainboards/via_c7</a>) and notice some fanless cpu/mb combinations. Just wondering what lead you to chose the VB7001G (which does use a cooling fan)? I'm interested because quiet doesn't help me if the sound or video cards don't work well under LTSP! Mark <div>On 10/25/07, Jeremy White <<a href="mailto:jwhite@codeweavers.com">jwhite@codeweavers.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > It might be doable IF mythtv can be run as a local application on each > client - that would drop the bandwidth to around 350KBps. For that > each client would need at least 700-800 MHz OR hardware MPEG2 decoding > (which works only if all video is in MPEG2 format). I know that some > people have been successful using certain VIA motherboards with said > hardware decoding as diskless frontends - you might check the > mythtv-users email archives for their experiences. I'm doing this successfully with LTSP on my main mythbackend server, and mythfrontend as a local app; I'm using a VIA VB7001G based system ($184 new; very nice). Of course, this is in my house, and there aren't a whole lot of nodes, so I'm not exactly straining the network <grin>. Cheers, Jeremy _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org"> http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>