Need a Media Center PC distribution with...
 

I need a media center linux distribution that meets these requirements:

1. looks decent with composite output of video card connected to a conventional tube television set.
2. supports some type of PC remote control. or should I use a wireless keyboard?
3. allows me to access my music files from a network share.
4. easy to get around for someone new to computers

I tried geexbox but i didn't see network capability.

I appreciate any suggestions.

elzmaddy,

Try Knoppix, SUSE or Mandriva

Mandriva
http://frontal2.mandriva.com/en/downloads/mirrors

OPENSUSE
http://www.opensuse.org/Download

Knoppix
http://iso.linuxquestions.org/distro.php?distro=5

All the Linux Distros have exelent Hardware detection and great Multimedia tools, sounds Like what you're Looking for

Jake

So you suggest taking a regular big-name distro and customizing it as needed, as opposed to a specialized distribution like KnoppMyth?

if you know about knoppmyth, then why this post? does it not have all those things? is mythtv a distro or application that can be isntalled on a distro? have you tried knoppmyth?

KnoppMyth is supposed to be, from waht I understand, Knoppix + MythTV frontend. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me -- it seems to be very, shall we say, "experimental" at this point.

No, it`s not.

knoppmyth is meanwhile Debian 3.1 + MythTV + Hauppage drivers + Huge script collection for getting what you want as easy as possible.

For NTSC it works nearly out of the box, for PAL you have to tweak some configs...

i completely understand what you mean on that point.

hope you didnt misunderstand my first post, didnt mean for it to sound rude or anything. i too have wanted to try this with an extra computer i have at home, but havent even dug into it deep enough. good luck with whatever you find.