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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. I still want to kill myself. by Compact+Dick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Life still sucks.

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  2. Mod Parent Down by iamweezman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This guy is always trolling...Mod Down. Better yet make him your enemy.

  3. Re:This is a great idea! by damiam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "gay" has many meanings unrelated to homosexuality.

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  4. Re:davedina.org requesting $20,000 by Feztaa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I much prefer smarter P2P (like Gnutella).

    Does gnutella actually exist? Over the past few weeks, my mom (who I converted to linux some time ago) has been complaining that she needs some way of getting music on her computer. I've been trying various gnutella clients, but NOTHING has been able to work (ie, no gnutella client can successfully connect to the gnutella network, let alone search out and download files from it). And yes, my firewall was opened for gnutella properly.

    My failure in finding a linux p2p app for mom has caused her to change back to windows, where she now enjoys kazaa (much to my chagrin).

    I personally use bittorrent as my primary p2p app, but I decided that was inappropriate for mom because of the passive nature of bittorrent (IE, you can't really search for files on bittorrent, you have to go to BT pages and wait for interesting files to come to you).