GeeXboX - Anyone Try It?

[Bungo Pony]

It's a Linux distro that's solely meant to turn your PC into a media player. The best part is it only needs 8M of drive space.

I'm tempted to give it a shot. Anyone else here tried it?

http://geexbox.org/en/index.html

[Zimmer]

It's a Linux distro that's solely meant to turn your PC into a media player. The best part is it only needs 8M of drive space.

I'm tempted to give it a shot. Anyone else here tried it?

http://geexbox.org/en/index.html

Yes, the disk is gathering dust on the shelf. Tried it mainly as a use for an old Pentium P120 (yes P120)
It worked.. after a fashion.. The P120 has since been consigned to the local tip.. following hard drive failure . Won't hurt you to try GeexBox, though I think using any other media player on your Ubuntu distro will do just as well.

[waggygee]

Does anyone know where I can find a simple how to? I checked the website... but I couldnt find anything:confused:

[salsafyren]

Burn the ISO, boot it.

[init1]

Try WOMP!
http://womp.sourceforge.net/

[reacocard]

I've tried it and it's not bad. It doesn't pick up widescreens automatically though.

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

I think GeexBox is brilliant, use it all the time to watch movies on my big TV. There is plenty of help on the website about how to set it up and use it, and a helpful forum with several regular experts to help out. Use the generator to configure a "GeexBox" for your own system, so that it picks up all your hardware and shares (although it will allow to browse loaclly if that is where your media is). Plays everything I throw at it. If you need any help, give a shout back here :)