Since I lashed out on a metric fuck-ton of disk the other week, I figured I might as well continue with the trend, and get the PC that will be the MythTV box.
Last week there was some spam in the snail-mail from Dell, the offer that caught my attention was a Dimension 3100 for under $500. I got a RAM upgrade to 1Gb, and the cheapest nastiest shipping available (which incidentally got rebated away to nothing) and the thing still turned up in two days and only cost me around $500. Gotta be happy with that.
I installed Etch on it via a netboot installation with no dramas at all. I really like the automatic LVM partitioning. Very slick. My only complaint would be not to use all of the free extents, just because you can, and to put swap on an LV as well. Oh, and I think calling the VG consistently "Debian" is going to result in pain for people down the track when they try to move disks around.
GNOME 2.14 is also looking pretty slick.
The only specific problems I've had with running Debian on the machine so far have been that the hardware clock (/dev/rtc) seems a bit screwy, and the sound didn't work with the 2.6.16 kernel that was installed by default. (But works fine with 2.6.17). Oh, and I'm having some weirdness with audio CDs.
Now all I need is to get a TV tuner card, a four-port USB 2.0 controller for my old 1RU server, and the right right-angled PCI riser, and I have everything I need.