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Intel demonstrates would be Mini Mac killer
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dudes I realize you can run Linux on a PC! I think in the demonstration they had it running a version of Windows Media Center. I could be wrong. Confused
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
devo wrote:
Dudes I realize you can run Linux on a PC! I think in the demonstration they had it running a version of Windows Media Center. I could be wrong. Confused


But do you realize there are Linux equivalents for WMC? Wink
Check this out: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/about.html ;
http://geexbox.org/en/index.html ;
http://movix.sourceforge.net/
and probably the best: http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythFeatures

If Apple would step into this world, there is a lot Open Source already done! If Steve Jobs was the same as Bill Gates, he just would steal the source codes, alter them and the looks a bit and voilá! But if he is smart, he would borrow some and give them their appreciation by giving some back! Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well there are the people over at the

http://centerstageproject.com/index.php?id=70
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Or Apple could start by opening up Aqua. But they aren't really the open source kind of firm.
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