I want to install some version of Linux on my 1st gen Apple TV.
What Linux variants can be installed on an Apple TV?
Bonus points: is this even a good idea? How useful is the Apple TV as a computer? Do you have a link to detailed tech specs?
What Linux variants can be installed on an 1st generation Apple TV
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For windows you can install it in bootcamp is very easy because there are a lot of videos or tutorials in youtube for this job.
For linux you can install Parallels.
Virtual-Box.
Or VMWARE.
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Best Answer
The first generation Apple TV had a pretty low powered Intel CPU, as you can see in the specs here. So in theory, you should be able to run just about any Linux distro, just a question of how much hacking you're willing to do.
There are a bunch of resources for doing this, but a good one is at the atv-bootloader project. There are tools to create a nice USB stick that should do most of the work for you.
As for how useful it is, don't expect much for general purpose computing - after all it's a 1 GHz Pentium-M with 256 MB of RAM. But it may do reasonably well for some home theatre tasks, or if you need a home automation server or similar box.