XBMC is an ideal client to play audio and video files stored on NAS with uShare, an UPnP & DLNA Media Server, running on GNU/Linux.
XBMC Live 9.04.1
July 22, 2009Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop
May 24, 2009Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop can be installed on a USB flash drive using the USB creator, which is included on the bootable Live CD. Then, you can boot the system using the portable flash drive and create a persistent image file to store your changes.
GeeXboX
February 8, 2007GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. Being a standalone LiveCD-based distribution, it’s a ready to boot operating system than works on any Pentium-class x86 computer or PowerPC Macintosh, implying no software requirement. You can even use it on a diskless computer, the whole system being loaded in RAM.
Despite his tiny ISO image size, the distribution comes with a complete and automatic hardware detection, not requiring any driver to be added. It supports playback of nearly any kind of audio/video and image files and all known codecs and containers are shipped in, allowing playing them through various physical supports, either being CD, DVD, HDD, LAN or Internet.
GeeXboX 1.1 supports my LifeView FlyVideo WDV TV Tunner.
Ubuntu
November 10, 2006Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. It is developed by a large community and we invite you to participate too!
The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.
These freedoms make Ubuntu fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you have the right to modify your software until it works the way you want it to.
KNOPPIX
October 1, 2006KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a productive Linux system for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it (over 8GB on the DVD “Maxi” edition).
Knoppix 4.0.2 is the only distribution so far which supports my LifeView FlyVideo WDV TV Tunner.
