Star OSNews Asks: A Good HTPC Linux Distribution
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Oct 2009 12:07 UTC
Linux I'm in a bit of a pickle here. I have an Atom 330-based tiny computer which I use as my HTPC. It performed its job fine running Windows 7 and Boxee, and over the past few months, it ran Mac OS X Leopard with Plex. Now, however, I want to try Linux as an HTPC operating system, but I kind of ran into a roadblock there with Ubuntu 9.10 - so the question is: what is a good HTPC Linux distribution?
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RE[9]: Comment by Thom_Holwerda
by smitty on Fri 30th Oct 2009 23:23 UTC in reply to "RE[8]: Comment by Thom_Holwerda"
smitty
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Let's stop whining and think. Maybe Mark's idea of trying to synchronize things better in the FOSS world makes sense. What if projects synchronized a little. What if Xorg wasn't in complete disarray for one distro release... and then KDE wasn't in complete disarray for the next... and then we weren't in a cataclysmic transition from udev to devfs2 for the next. What if every 2 years we all came together for something that didn't resemble a Halloween party in a brown paper bag factory?

We are all in this together. All the projects. And yet each project acts as if its own schedule existed totally independent of the whole.


If only there was some kind of group out there that existed, which could look through the projects and only upgrade to newer versions when they weren't in complete disarray, and stick with older versions of the software when newer stuff broke.

Maybe we could call it a "distribution".

I mean, is it really KDE or X.Orgs fault that Ubuntu ships broken software? Shouldn't someone at Canonical have realized that shipping working software is more important than bumping a version number?

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