From: "Edward" <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > I quote from an online magazine article I was reading: > > "Linux can do everything Media Centre can do, but no one’s gone out and > made a dedicated distro that does all this, and has a nice > consumer-friendly interface. Sure the installation will be harder -- > much harder -- but there’s plenty of PC tech people with the savvy to > sort out that end of the bargain." > > Do you guys know of anyone thinking or contemplating doing this with > Linux? Microsoft Media Centre can only be bundled with certified PC's, > meaning I could basically never sell one, because my company is too > small fry for Microsoft, but what if there was a Linux distro that is > *JUST* set up for media content? > > If no-one is doing this already, what do you think interest will be in a > project like this? I hate to rain on your parade, but I doubt that this will happen, for the same reasons that Fedora doesn't ship with DVD-viewing software or MP3 codecs. People have copyrights or patents or whatever, and if a U.S. based distro had that stuff, they'd get sued. M$ has the deep pockets to pay for those royalties, open source doesn't (AFAIK). Ben
