geexbox

[the_dope_chaud]

anybody know geexbox?
ita small no-nonsense linux-based media-player os. You boot from the live cd, it loads to ram and spits out the CD. From the menu, you can find your network shares and watch a movie\show or music. Even streaming media. All this on a computer without a hard drive. Burned the iso to a cd last night, tried on a few rigs here, its light, easy and it just works, strongly recommend.
I been trying to make a diskless media pc and I believe this is it !

[Xero (1)ne]

Does it run fast even from CD? I would copy it to HDD just so it runs faster and makes less noise.

[the_dope_chaud]

dude, you boot from the cd, and after its loaded, it pops out the cd. NO HDD !!!
It loads into your RAM
takes 30 seconds to load on a p3 with 512 meg pc133.
Detects video, sound, network. (Tonight I'm gonna try wireless)
NO NOISE, NO NOISE and NO NOISE.
Think mini or micro-atx and a small power supply.
network works, I watch my shows from my fileserver. Only thing that heats is the p3 866 and the psu. And I'm taking that shark 200w psu appart tonight !
Yeah I'll be real careful, but I live with a guy who is webmaster at city hall,and he just so happens to have a degree in electronics. He MAKES his own pcb's !
I'm pretty confident he will save me from electrocution. And I'm working on the p3 also. I'm working on a small case with minimum noise. Maybe open psu for better cooling. I mean frameless psu. I hope to have just one 120mm fan around 800 rpm cooling it all. With logical airflow management and smart placing of hot objects I'm sure it can be done.

EDIT

I forgot the best part, .....



ITS FREE

http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html

You can also dowload the builder and incorporate you codecs and whatever, and build your own iso.