Looking for a great Linux-based summer project? Wired News offers an overview of a number of do-it-yourself Linux-based digital video recorder projects based on open-source software. The article points out that there are about a dozen collaborative projects that form the basis for building a device that offers the DVR functions of a TiVo or ReplayTV, including target=”new”>MythTV. “All you need is knowledge of Linux, plenty of cash for hardware and, if anything goes wrong, hundreds of hours to troubleshoot the device . . .”

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