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Other Light Weight OS for HTPC?

Discussion in 'Software' started by jezmck, 31 Oct 2008.

  1. jezmck

    jezmck Minimodder

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    Can anyone recommend a nice light weight version/distro of linux (with GUI) that I could use for an HTPC?

    EDIT: Would anyone recommend any non-*nix OS?
     
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  2. steveo_mcg

    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    geexbox is perfect if all you need is playback otherwise debian and fluxbox. Or if your really going for it mythbuntu
     
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  4. jezmck

    jezmck Minimodder

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    Thanks guys.

    Is there anyone here who already has an HTPC setup and are happy with it?
     
  5. esdubu

    esdubu What's a Dremel?

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    You could try XBMC live, a usb bootable version of Xbox Media Center for the PC. You can also install it onto hard drive as well. It's also currently only beta 2 but is probably due to go gold before christmas. More info here http://xbmc.org/forum/
     
  6. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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    I wouldn't use geexbox, it's not very well supported any more and the libraries aren't the best.
     
  7. steveo_mcg

    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    Depends what your using it on, A 5 year old computer doesn't exactly need much support. What do you mean by the libraries? noob question.
     
  8. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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    The stuff that tells it how to work with uPnP and DLNA server. uShare is based on the same libraries but even though the PS3 is uPnP compliant it won't read the files.
     

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