#GEEXBOX LINUX DISTROS INSTALL#
Although the installation fell short, I’m still quite amazed by just knowing that it is possible to install it on a hard drive or to an external USB storage device. I opted to boot using the “install” parameter, but it failed because it didn’t found my SCSI VM disk. Once the ISO was loaded, a boot menu appeared, and I pressed F1 to try other options. Anyway, so I got GeeXboX and then I tried and tested it using a Linux virtualization software. You can download its latest version directly from here, and I promise that it won’t take long to completely finish the download. I downloaded GeeXboX 1.1 out of curiosity, and mainly because it is ranked among the top 50 in Distrowatch. GeeXboX also comes with a complete toolchain that allows developers adding easily extra packages and features but that might also be used to give birth to many dedicated embedded Linux systems. 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. You can even use it on a diskless computer, the whole system being loaded in RAM.ĭespite his tiny ISO image size, the distribution comes with a complete and automatic hardware detection, not requiring any driver to be added. 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. GeeXboX, as described from its website, is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. Also, did I mention that it has a Linux kernel inside? Indeed it is considered as one of the many Linux distributions, and its name is GeeXboX with the capital X's. GeeXboX, Windows Media Center Killer: Can you imagine that there is a full operating system the size of 8.87MB? In fact, it has a graphical user interface and specializes in playing multimedia files utilizing MPlayer.
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