GeeXboX: Lightweight Media System

“GeeXboX is a live distribution that can quickly turn a PC into
a straight-forward media playback solution. It can be installed to
a hard disk, but it works quite well when booted from a CDROM or
other removable media. I’m going to examine the existing, stable
1.x series and also take a look at what the forthcoming (but
already usable) 2.x series has lined up.

“GeeXboX 1.2.4, The Stable Edition

“For fans of lightweight distributions, things look promising
from the start as the GeeXboX ISO is only 18MB in size. Upon
booting, the user is presented with a startup menu giving options
for booting into GeeXboX itself or installing to a HD. After a few
seconds, GeeXboX assumes the default option and boots from the
media, a surprisingly fast process. The boot time from a physical
CDROM on real hardware was considerably faster than booting from an
ISO image with a VM on the same machine, a point worth bearing in
mind when assessing GeeXboX.”

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