“Acoustic Reality is a Danish company that sells speakers,
amplifiers, storage devices, cables, and other products to build
top-shelf home entertainment centers. It recently released eAR OS
Free Edition, a free media center system built on top of Ubuntu
that features a free version of the Acoustic Reality software
technology used in the $100 eAR RT-OS Enterprise Edition and in the
company’s hardware Media 4 products. It provides a user-friendly
media center along with a nice implementation of Ubuntu.“eAR OS is an installable live CD. The boot options are similar
to those of Ubuntu 8.04 and the installer is exactly the same. The
only problem I noted with the installer was with user setup, which
didn’t actually add my user…”
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