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Hi I am new here and currently have a few questions to ask and I am new to Linux so please bare with me lol.

Ok I have been told this can be done through Linux, I have built a Media Centre pc running Windows MCE 2005, it is located under the stairs in my house and the VGA & Audio signal are distributed around the house over CAT5, which is all well and good, but the problem is that if someone say in the bedroom wants to send an email, and the someone in the lounge wants to play music, it can't be done because its just sending the one thing everywhere, so people have said why not just have media extenders in everyroom, well I don't want that either because I might as well just built media centres and stick them in every room in the house. What I am looking for is one central machine with multiple tuners, multiple graphics card feeding each room independantly, so people can do seperate things on the one system at the same. Can this be done if so how lol?

Thanks very much,
Jack

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Cigarstub, you need to stop this now. If you don't have useful advice to post about the problem at hand, don't post anything.


@jack7145

Unfortunately cigarstub has bounced your post out of the autobump system, so if you don't get a useful answer in 24 hours, feel free to bump your thread

I've never fed media over cat5 and so forth like you are, but you should be able to have each room logged in on a separate X windows session which would allow users to do different tasks.

Oh great, would you be able to explain how to do this and what extra hardware and what software ie which distribution of linux to use?

Thanks,
Jack