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alternative to openelec - protocol77 - 2012-01-27 does anyone know a good alternative to having xbmc on a linux build i tried openelec and like how lightweight and fast it was however my samba shares kept dissapearing randomly and could not access them one minute they worked next minute they didn't i think it had something to do with my ethernet onboard anyways looking for a simple free alternative linux build to run xbmc on i want it to be standalone like openelec i know there is the xbmc live cd but it is out of date and still running dharma does anyone know a good one or even a good lightweight linux distro to run it off the new xbmc live cd is supposed to be going to run a lighter distro than the current ubuntu but is not out yet - snipah - 2012-01-27 In my opinion the best thing to do is compile on your machine using an oneiric minimal-installation. You have all the possibilities and in my opinion it is really fast enough! - Fox - 2012-01-27 Depends on what kind of hardware you are running, I use the freak one on my ION machine. http://www.xbmcfreak.nl/en - Orclas - 2012-01-27 Have you tried Live? Although perhaps not as light as Openelec, it's not like it's some brick heavy OS underneath. Why don't you just burn/prep a CD/USB and run it once without install and see how it works (or have you already)? - sraue - 2012-01-27 protocol77 Wrote:does anyone know a good alternative to having xbmc on a linux build i tried openelec and like how lightweight and fast it was however my samba shares kept dissapearing randomly and could not access them maybe its better to look where the problem is (/var/log/message for example) and help to fix the problem instead looking for alternatives? Stephan - darkscout - 2012-01-27 XBMC does smb/nfs natively. There's no reason to mount drives any more. - pumkinut - 2012-01-28 darkscout Wrote:XBMC does smb/nfs natively. There's no reason to mount drives any more.While it does SMB/CIFS and NFS natively, I wouldn't say there's no reason to mount drives anymore. I'm constantly having a battle with running out of storage and migrating off of a full server to NAS devices. My IPs sometimes change, and I sometimes break out different types of video files onto a new device, e.g. I have a separate device for Television than I do for Movies. Mounting the drives, I've learned, allows me to not have to update my library when I add/change devices and/or IP addresses. I just change the entry in /etc/fstab and the Library is none the wiser. This only applies to a local library, but I have that for my Eden beta box as I'm still running Dharma on my ATV1 and it's using a central MySQL database library on my Synology NAS. |