After a quick perusal of your linked article, I didn't see it mentioned.
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I'd like to get the zalman built in IR receiver
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You will be wanting lirc -
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/LIRC
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and VFD display to work with linux/mythTV, but I'm not sure if that's going to be doable.
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http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php...y:LCD_displays
Hopefully it is one of these models, I couldn't tell after a quick review of the case specifications - although any VFD is bound to be workable in Linux.