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Entertainment System Distro

  • 30-08-2003 4:10pm
    #1
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭


    can anyone reccomend some resources for an entertainment system Distro, have a cube system id liek to bang some on!


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  • #2
    BenH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭BenH


    Theres a distro called JAMD, based off Red Hat where alot of work has been done on the multimedia side. It really depends on what you want in regard to entertainment, any distro would do as you would have to get ahold of third party software - WineX for Games,, Rosegarden and Muse for music, Xine + codecs for watching movies, LiVES for video editing, The Gimp and Imagemagik for graphics and so on and so on.

    Best,

    Ben


  • #3
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    MythTV. When I finally get around to building my living room box, that's what's gonna be on it. The latest news on his site is that someone has built a mini-distro specifically for it.You get:
    • PVR (TiVo-like)
    • TV guide
    • Pause live TV
    • Web browser module
    • Game module (MAME etc)
    • Music browser
    • CD ripping
    • Movie database
    ...and probably other stuff I've forgotten. Neat.


  • #4
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    ideally im looking for somthing that boots fast and is usuable for someone who know sheg all about Linux. So that it literally functions as an entertainment system. Play DIVX, Mp3, DVD's etc


  • #5
    nadir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭nadir


    gentoo altho it requires alot of compiling, u should be able to install a stage 3 tarball easily enough without too much linux experience, the install instructions are quite comprehensive. Once set up, emerge should greatly simplify the difficulties of compiling. Portage should come in very handy too, im running mandrake atm but im swithing to gentoo soon.


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