Got my Cubox

[Thomas Milne]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 07:51:28AM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
>> Coming at you from my new Cubox, actually one of two that I bought on
>> an impulse one day a few months ago and forgot about...
>>
>> Anyway, it doesn't impress me as much as I thought it would, which I
>> would have known if I did a little research, so I don't blame the
>> developers.
>>
>> For one thing, I needed to reinstall dbus right away, in order to be
>> able to change the date and for the sound to work. Actually, prior to
>> that the network was not connecting either, but once I pulled out the
>> network cable and plugged it in again it found the router.
>>
>> What I was not aware of is that there are no packages available for
>> things like XBMC or even Chrome or Flash, so I've got no reason to
>> connect this to a TV just yet. The instructions for getting XBMC
>> working on here seem to imply drastic changes to the built-in
>> software, so I'm hesitant to try that just yet.
>>
>> And overall the system seems surprisingly slow. It is pretty much what
>> I had with my old AMD Sempron. I suppose it might work better with a
>> different OS running, but again I misunderstood something, because I
>> could have sworn they said this came with both Ubuntu Linux and
>> Android OS. Most applications are very slow to respond, especially if
>> more than a few are running at the same time.
>>
>> I'll say this, it sure is small and quiet ;)
>>
>> If anyone else has their Cubox and can share some of their successes
>> with this device I would be very happy to learn about it, I would
>> especially be interested in shortcuts for getting XBMC or at least
>> something similar working.
>>
>> Also, I have an extra Cubox, so if anyone is really desperate to get
>> their hands on one I currently have no imminent need for it.
>
> Well I was planning on ordering one to try and get mythfrontend running
> on it.
>
> Did you order two or something?
>

Yeah, I have a problem with impulsive buying. I thought from what I
read that it either came with XBMC or that it was an available
software package. Oops!

Are you sure about MythTV, though? There aren't even instructions I
can find for compiling on ARM, and the Myth wiki even advises against
using ARM. Sort of.

Seriously, it's freaking me out how quiet this thing is.

-- 
Thomas Milne
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