Linux?

[admin_exported]

I posted on another board about some functionality that I'm looking for in a hi-fi. I don't think it is out there yet, So I think I will go the route of creating a small PC for the task. The making the PC is the easy part, but I would prefer not to have a long load time and a lot of other stuff that is not required in the Windows program. So I'm wondering is there any Linux solution, that has a really quick start up time and is just a bare bones media center/player and nothing else? or does anyone have any other suggestions?

 

[scene]

Have a look at xbmc - think their at www.xbmc.org. You can get download it to a usb key for direct boot up so that you can try it out without installing it. I've had a play with it and it's pretty good IMO...

 

[roger06]

Any Linux system can have just the 'bare bones' - that's the beauty of it. You can, at the kernel level, turn off all the bits you don't need or dedicate the resources to the tasks you do.

Any Linux distro can be installed with no GUI which can also make things run quicker.

I'm a fan of SuSE or Ubuntu.

 

[roger06]

Oh and I guess Google Chrome will be a great bet - but it's yet to come of age...

 

[Anonymous]

Check out:-

http://vortexbox.org/downloads/

I'm running it on a SFF pc, and dont know how I could live without it.