On Saturday 29 July 2006 12:35 pm, michael hast wrote:
> Robert Snyder wrote:
> > What draw do you have to Linspire/Freespire every copy I seen of both
> > have proven it to be a half baked distro.
>
> Well, primarily, the propietary stuff that ships with it. I'm not
> familiar with another distro like that. Especially when
> free-as-in-beer. I don't see myself switching over from Debian anytime
> soon, but it does look fascinating enough to check out.
> Secondly, I plan on setting up a home theater PC in the
> not-so-distant future. I don't really want to have to sit around and
> configure the crap out of the thing so I can watch a movie, or
> whatever. This might be a valid option to a Mac, a hacked Xbox (which
> I've never really considered a VALID option), or dare I say it, a
> Windhoes PC.
> So, that's the draw I have. Do you have other suggestions for that
> type of distro?
http://linux.startcom.org/?app=14&rel=18
http://freshmeat.net/projects/movix/
Are both distros designed to be multimedia boxes that supposedly do what you
want. Searched distrowatch with keyword multimedia.
Hope this helps.
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