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Linux Media Jukebox on the Cheap
tsetem writes "Over on ExtremeTech, they have a write-up on building your own Linux Media Jukebox for a little over $500 and a bit of elbow-grease. This is probably the PC we were hoping that the Lindows Media PC would've been." This particular project uses Freevo which has matured significantly
since I last looked at it.
I just threw glirnath onto a pentium 120 with apache running Debian/Woody.
If anyone wants to do this really cheap, this script to remotely controll xmms through a console session.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
This article is what slashdot used to be. Some marginally cool hardware, assembled in a marginally cool manner. Lately things have been much too politically biased, and really just crap.
We have the Pro-Linux, Anti-Microsoft crowd that can't really see past technology, and just keeps touting open source as the way to solve the world's problems, feed the hungry, etc.. Nevermind that the only OSS company that's I'm aware of making any money is RedHat (marginal, based on their market cap)
Then we have the newly converted slashdotters, who are still pro-microsoft, and use their mod points to flame the anti-microsoft guys, in a big holy war over why Bill's evil, or microsoft is doomed to fail.
I used to spend hours on slashdot reading articles like this, following the discussion, and all the friggin cool links that people would post. I am usually more interested in what other people post than the stories themselves, but cool stories like this get us on a cool topic.
Yes I am concerned with things like privacy, government, and free speech. But sometimes, I want to digress to PURE GEEKNESS, and think about building my own PVR, or X10 in my house. That is why I'm here...