Hello,

I am looking for information on converting my old Celeron based PC into Home Theater. Sometime back "Linux For You" magazine had published an article on same topic, details as under.

Make A Home Theatre Out of Your Junk PC
Issue: August 01, 2008 Page: 40-42 Author: Arjun Pakrashi

Can anyone please share with me the softcopy of above article or information on how to convert old PC into Home Theater?

Best regards.

Sorry, but I don't think that would be legal. It is a magazine in print, and it has to be purchased and is copyright. So, no, nobody can give you a "soft copy".

What kind of home theater are we talking about ? Somehow I don't think on old Celery, I mean, Celeron processor will cut it ...

we will not be able to give you an illegal copy of it . Also a old celeron " laptop" cpu and i am assuming there is no nvidia 8000 OR BETTER card in it . and has 512 meg of ram will not work well for that .

It's not the same article, but you may be interested in the following

http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/linux-htpc/

Hello shantanujs,
You can ofcource get a copy of the article you are requesting. The magazine publishes almost all thg articles under creative commons licence. Instead of the magazine edition of the article i can provide tou with a link of the author's site . Get the article here:

http://phoxis.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/geexbox-11/

This is actually a review of the GeexBox operating system. It has updated a bit since i wrote the review in the mag, but you will be able to get all the information in there. Else there is always the official site.
I think you will like the article. Do let me know if the article helped you. The best will be if you drop a comment in the blog post page.

If you still need a pdf version of the magazine publication you can ask (i think you will not need that).

Best,
Phoxis
(Arjun Pakrashi)

Thank you very much J.W. and Phoxis. The URLs provided by both of you has very good information and are useful to me.
- shantanujs