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darkphon22:
Hey, I'm inviting you guys to beta test what I have been working on day and night for the past month, infinityOS. It is a general purpose media center operating system based on a highly customized and striped down version of Ubuntu Server Karmic. It is capable of hardware H.264 decoding, automated Bittorrent downloading, and HD video playback. It is designed to be used on a computer connected to a TV, though it can be used on any computer (I even got it to boot and fully work on my Macbook).

I consider it the successor to BeOS in spirit and functionally. It is fast and nimble, taking up only 150 MB of RAM on a cold boot (an order of magnitude lower than either Windows or Mac OS X) while remaining a fully functional (and pretty) OS. I have also designed it to follow the Unix philosophy as closely as possible while remaining as intuitive to use as the iPhone.

Since I was able to package the infinityOS on to an installable live CD, I am now opening up the private beta testing to a larger audience. I feel that I will be able to publicly release it by the end of next week. As this is not a public release, I must ask that you *not* redistribute it to anyone and to try to be subtle about the core functionality when mentioning it to others.

I hope to use this as an Honour's project for my degree in Computer Science and greatly appreciate any feedback you may wish to give.

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Once its installed, please change the folder that Deluge, the Bittorrent client, and the "Add Video Feed" script both download to something outside your installation partition (or create a separate /home partition in the installation). Otherwise when you update to a newer version of infinityOS, all your downloads will be wiped.

Keep in mind as well that the "Add Video Feed" script is extremely anal about indenting and remember to never use tabs when editing it. Also if a show's name start with a number, put it in quotations (ie. "24 Dennistoun"). I recommend that you manually run the aggregator using the command "sudo -H -u deluge flexget" every time you update the script to ensure that it works.

Note: The password to everything is "hitchhiker" without the quotes. I recommend you change this as well as I have SSH enabled by default (with DenyHosts enabled as a safety measure).

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I do not have a full website set up yet as I am not finished the branding. However I do have both a Launchpad and a Sourceforge project set up.

Feel free to download it from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/infinity-os/

Please post any bugs you find, any questions you have, and any suggestions you would like to make to:

https://launchpad.net/infinityos

Thanks,
Ryan

Pzc:
Sounds interesting, would've checked it out if
I could but right now I can't  :-\

Good luck  :)

vuzedome:
Gonna try it out, looks very interesting, just what I've been looking for.
If this turns out to be very good, you'll receive vuzedome's seal of approval.

Takeshi:
Would it be possible to see some screenshots of the OS? That could increase people's interest and mine too.

darkphon22:
Here's screenshot of the desktop. I'm using Xfce as the window manager and SMPlayer as the video player.



I should mention to that it includes Samba set-up by default to share your home folder (read-only, I recommend using SFTP to upload stuff so the server can't spread viruses). Deluge is integrated into the OS itself as daemon running in an unpriviledged user. The Deluge WebUI is set-up by default as well (Port 8080).

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