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infinityOS - The Media Distribution
darkphon22:
I have added a new repository called "testing-drivers" that has the newest versions of the Nvidia VDPAU drivers, ALSA, and Network Manager.
You may add it and update your install to have the latest drivers by entering in the following in the terminal:
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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:infinityos/testing-drivers
$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
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You will have to restart your computer after the drivers have been updated.
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Due to popular request, I have decided to add XBMC to the infinityOS repos. It is currently in the "testing" repo, which is enabled by default in RC1. You may install it by entering in the following commands:
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$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude install xbmc
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Please tell me how well it works. If all goes well, I may include it in the default install.
I have decided to postpone the release of infinityOS 1.0 Marvin for a little while longer to allow XBMC to be tested.
Thanks,
Ryan
darkphon22:
I'm likely going to stop posting updates here due to a lack of recent feedback. All future release updates will be provided at http://infinityos.net/news. Feel free to drop by my forums if you have any questions.
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infinityOS 1.0 RC2 has been made available on Sourceforge. With this release, I have decided to add something that everyone has been asking me for, an optional traditional 10 foot interface. It seems like many of you are reluctant to give up your remotes just yet. I have included XBMC in its full glory, with all its session managing features. infinityOS is also configured out of the box to allow you to use your Windows Media Center remote with XBMC.
I highly recommend that you use the infinityOS Desktop as your 10 foot interface as many of infinityOS' advanced features are not exposed in XBMC. This includes the BitTorrent client (can still be accessed on another computer via the WebUI) and adding new TV shows to the feed aggregator (you can still SSH into your computer and add TV shows by editing "/var/lib/deluge/.flexget/config.yml").
You may run XBMC as a program on top of infinityOS' desktop interface or logon directly into it by changing your "session" in the login screen to XBMC. This functionality is also available on the Live CD, just log out of the default Live CD user, enter "infinity" as your username, change your session to "XBMC", and enter no password. You'll log right into the XBMC interface with no overhead from the desktop environment. It is virtually identical to XBMC Live when running XBMC as your session, except with newer drivers and automated BitTorrent downloading.
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infinityOS 1.0 Marvin is itching closer every day and the final version will be based on Karmic. However, I will be providing many of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid's features in infinityOS through feature updates (ie. new versions of the end user programs included). infinityOS 2.0 Zaphod will be based on Lucid and will be released mid-summer. This is to allow for Lucid's codebase to stablise (it usually takes around two months for a Ubuntu release to become truly stable) and to allow for the community to begin to provide updates for it. A notable possible new feature for infinityOS 2.0 will be full ATi support as supposibly their drivers have greatly improved.
I have registered infinityOS as a business in Ontario, Canada and am going through the process of getting investor funding (Scotiabank is notably interested). This distribution is going away no time soon and you'll likely see alot of more of it in the future.
Grab it from here:
http://infinityos.net/download
Good luck and happy testing,
Ryan Oram
darkphon22:
Here are some of my ideas for new features in infinityOS 2.0 Zaphod.
[*]Full Twitter/Facebook integration in Thunar, Banshee, SMPlayer and Deluge. I want you guys to be able to talk to your friends straight through the OS itself and the programs you use. Hell, I want you to be able to chat about music you're listening too, the videos you're watching and the files you're downloading through the programs themselves. I have contacted the developer of Gwibber to help me with this.
[*]Full IMDB integration in Thunar, Deluge and SMPlayer. I want you guys to be able to seamlessly get all the information on movies/TV shows as you are downloading them, browsing them, and watching them.[/list]
Eventually, I want to make the Internet and infinityOS to be seemlessly integrated, so much so there will be no distinction between using one or the other. I basically want to make infinityOS the proverbial semantic desktop.
Most of this stuff will be trivial to implement as I have deliberately chosen all of the included applications to have plugins/replaceable interfaces. However, I will need all the help I can get.
Feel free to drop by my Launchpad or my forums to help out.
Ryan
darkphon22:
I'm working on "the infinity Manifesto", which will be released with infinityOS 1.0.
Here is a excerpt:
--- Quote ---infinityOS was created due to a belief that the means of the production, distribution, and consumption of our media should be completely free and open. Even if our media itself may not be free-of-charge. It is intended to be a platform on which one may use his media, free of restrictions beyond those of copyright itself.
In order for society to prosper, we must be able to control and customize our tools and means of communication. Through a system of open and universal digital rights management, I intend to bring the control of the media back to the people.
--- End quote ---
Hiyori-chan:
Using it on another laptop connected to my tv, I cant figure out drivers (such as net) but then again I never did for ubuntu OS's otherwise its running smoothly so far.
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