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Introducing The Dave/Dina Multimedia Distro

Posted by timothy on from the more-the-merrier dept.

thomasvs writes "The Dave/Dina project is a small enthusiastic group of developers working on a complete open-sourced distribution for home entertainment systems. You can record and watch TV, watch DVD's, grab and listen to CD's, rate your music, videochat with other people, watch pictures, and all this on your TV set in the living room, with a remote control. The first .iso set has just been released. This is a beta release meant to attract new developers, testers, and hackers, who want to work towards a similar goal. It works fine for us, but it might need fixing on other hardware, which is our next goal. On a related note, Happy New Year to everyone !"

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  1. This is a great idea! by SargeZT · · Score: 1, Funny

    This idea is like Windows XP Media Center Edition. Free software for everything you could possibly want in a Home Multimedia Center.

    But ya'know, not at all gay like WinXP MCE

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  2. davedina.org requesting $20,000 by morelife · · Score: 4, Funny

    For new servers.

    They are down now.

    1. Re:davedina.org requesting $20,000 by thomasvs · · Score: 5, Funny

      sigh, if I had known you people would be actually reading on New Year's eve... you're supposed to be out partying like me damnit ! Anyway, if anyone wants to set me up with an ftp or scp account so I can upload the iso's, let me know ! thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org, I can start uploading right away.

  3. Top Ten Ways to Kill a Webserver by aztektum · · Score: 3, Funny

    10. Run it on a distro dedicated to multimedia playback and post it on /.

    The rest is up to you

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  4. Attractive by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny
    This is a beta release meant to attract new developers, testers, and hackers, who want to work towards a similar goal.

    And lawyers and RIAA and MPAA who don't, oh my!

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  5. FIRST POST ASKING WHY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why?

  6. Re:another writeup by rmull · · Score: 1, Funny

    just a HUNCH but I'd fathom a guess that this link isn't particularly relevant, or work safe. I don't know since I'm at work, and I value my job and my eyes. Follow with caution.

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  7. Advice to distro nerds. by supabeast! · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the future, when you get /. to pump your new distro, make sure that your servers can handle the load first.

    Morons.

  8. I can't believe it... historical first ! by Dave21212 · · Score: 3, Funny


    A Google Search (dina tersago belgium) on a supermodel babe yields as it's first result, not a bunch of spam/pron sites, but a new Linux project ? WTF ? hehehe...

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  9. But...it's still TV. by z123z · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great. Now I can have many more hours and channels of TV I don't want to watch.