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Media Center GeeXboX 2.0 distribution with XBMC
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The Media Distribution Center GeeXboX has been released after several years of development in version 2.0. During the development of the GeeXboX team experimented with several media-center projects such as MPUI, Freevo, or Enna, able finally to decide for XBMC.
rel=”nofollow”GeeXboX 2.0 is based on a 2.6.38.8 kernel. As Systemd init system is used, friends of the command line can give their orders via BusyBox. GeeXboX 2.0 comes with an easy to use interface and makes it easy with ConMan users to integrate their Media Center PC into existing networks. The media center distribution supports USB memory to permanently store user data. Using the package manager opkg can expand the system with additional software.
The most important application is the GeeXboX Media Center XBMC, which is included in version 10.1. GeeXboX allows access to distributed data with NFS or Samba, and can obtain media files from HTTP and FTP servers. Movies and TV series can be equipped with captioning, users can manage their music collection with the system, view images, play CDs, DVDs or Bluerays and access to media databases. Using skins, the appearance of the Media Center’s own that you customized.
GeeXboX is a hybrid image for CDs and much quieter working USB flash drives to download and consumes approximately 70 MB of disk space. And are 64-bit architectures supported on ARM architecture-based platforms, such as the Panda OMAP4 Board of Texas Instruments or nVidia Tegra2 Harmony – not only PCs with 32.
Tags: distribution, GeeXboX 2.0, Media Center, XBMC