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Freepia

[Posted May 21, 2003 by ris]

Freepia is small GNU/Linux distribution designed to run on Via Epia-M Mainboards. At present it only runs on the M-9000. The motivation behind this project is to build a full featured, low noise media box to play movies/mp3s/images etc. It currently uses Freevo, but in the future there maybe support for other media players like mythtv or vdr. Version 0.3.1 was released on May 17, 2003. Freepia has also joined the "Special Purpose" section of our Distributions List.

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Freepia

Posted May 23, 2003 18:22 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

I'm only a kibitzer on the mailing list at this point, but I'll point out
that MythTV is *not* just a media player; it's a pretty close to fullblown
PVR, at this point, and Isaac and about a dozen others (minimum) are
banging on it *quite* hard.

Keep an eye open; it's gonna be cool in 1.0. Hell, it's cool *now*.