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Originally posted by AdamW View Postblackiwid: FWIW, XBMC is not really a project that works very nicely with distro packaging. It's stuffed with embedded libraries; it's really a whole giant Thing in itself, not a nice neat modular piece of software.
I actually like XBMC, but I wouldn't entirely see the point in running it on top of Fedora. If I want to play media on a general-purpose Linux distribution I'd use mplayer or vlc or something like that. To me XBMC makes more sense as a dedicated box. I have a Zotac HTPC which runs OpenELEC: http://www.openelec.tv/ . For me, that's the sensible way to deploy XBMC. YMMV.
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Originally posted by blackiwid View Postopenelec looks nice, but I need some server funktionality on this box... maybe samba maybe ssh is enough... maybe something else mpd maybe ok that could xbmc also do I guess... but also bittorrent daemon and such stuff... is that somewhat easy to install in openelec?
I know there are XBMC 'spins' of various full-fat distros which may be more appropriate for your purposes, I think there's an Ubuntu-derived one and a SUSE-derived one for e.g.
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Originally posted by AdamW View PostI don't honestly know, I don't set up my systems that way - my OpenELEC box is strictly a media player, the content is hosted on my NAS and I download stuff to it from the general-purpose systems on the network. You certainly get ssh access to OpenELEC out of the box, and I'm pretty sure it does the uPNP media serving stuff, beyond that I haven't looked.
I know there are XBMC 'spins' of various full-fat distros which may be more appropriate for your purposes, I think there's an Ubuntu-derived one and a SUSE-derived one for e.g.
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Originally posted by blackiwid View Postis openelec even xbmc 13 else it would not solv a problem for me
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I started with F19 in May, when the alphas were released. Fedora 19 is a very solid distribution. I immediately liked the anaconda installer, and except for some minor quirks with some features, I found anaconda great. In a similar way, Fedora 19 is great. After using both Gnome in F19 and KDE, I elected to go with KDE. It is just a matter of personal preference. With Fedora 18, I chose Gnome over KDE. As I indicated, it is a matter of preference. I did try other DE's such as cinnamon, which again, but when I did my testing, cinnamon was unavailable to test. I will wait a few weeks and then give cinnamon a try.
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