Comments on: Viglen MPC-L. Well worth £79.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:29:27 +0000

I'm not really familiar with Linux MCE, but Andy Stanford-Clark has done a lot of home automation stuff using a Viglen MPC-L at the core of it all. Check out our interview with him on the Ubuntu UK Podcast: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2008/08/30/s01e13-dont-be-cruel/

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:57:20 +0000

Would this PC lend itself to the LinuxMCE distro, thinking of building as a home automation server based on LinuxMCE http://linuxmce.com

By: Simon Reap

Simon Reap — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:25:39 +0000

My MPC has just arrived. It now has Hardy installed (8.04.3 LTS), and the 80GB disk is all one partition, apart from 1.5Gb of swap, which is active by default. You also get 512MB RAM, the keyboard and mouse, all for £78.99 (yes, the UbuntuUK Podcast offer is still open). root login is disabled (the password is stored as “!”), but sudo works fine. I plan to use this to replace 3 full-size servers running 24/7 in my house – that should bring the power usage from 200 Watts down to 11, so it will pay for itself in 6 months!

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:02:03 +0000

Hi Adrian, I would think that the MPC-L would be quite well suited as a thin client. I think it can netboot too!

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:17:41 +0000

Hi Tony, I was fortunate to win one of these machines and I really like it but I was wondering if it could be used as a remote terminal. I posted more here;
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7999270#post7999270
Cheers

By: Andrew Ferrier

Andrew Ferrier — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:42:52 +0000

Tony, thanks. Had a nasty feeling that was the case. A little less powerful than I’m looking for, sadly. Thanks for the feedback.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:16:27 +0000

Hi Andrew. It’s an AMD Geode CPU. We give more details on the hardware in Season 1 Episode 11 of the podcast.

By: Andrew Ferrier

Andrew Ferrier — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:21:06 +0000

Good review, thanks. Any idea what processor it has?

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:12:19 +0000

The offer is still live and kicking! My MPC turned up today…
Now shift my carefully crafted install from the old server to this one… eek…

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:25:19 +0000

Hi James. Viglen have told us that the offer is still on and given us another MPC-L to give away in the latest episode of the Ubuntu podcast from the UK LoCo team. When I first contacted mpc@ I had to chase them a couple of times, so I’d try e-mailing them again or giving them a call.