2010-01-14, 16:45
rcoops Wrote:I suspect you will get a: "Why thank you for the offer please let us know when it's done." reply from a developer sometime soon.
The reason is simple the more flavors of Linux one supports the more one ends up knee deep in the guts of one distro after the other trying to sort out issues specific to that one distro.
As mentioned in other threads rather then doing that the XBMC team would prefer to improve XBMC it self and let others deal with the compiling of XBMC on other distros. The fact that XBMC works under Ubuntu and that the Live version is based on that same distro shows that XBMC works under Linux. If you want it working with your favorite distro please make it so and share it with the community.
I know there is someone working on their own distro that basically boots directly into XBMC. It is a minimal Linux which also boots in a few seconds, its primary purpose is to server as an entertainment center with XBMC at its core. The whole distro is ~60MB in size or so and because it really is minimal in that it runs no other services then what is absolutely needed it is very fast.
I cannot find the post right now but I know it is being worked on, you might want to get in contact with the creator of that distro and see what basis he build his distro on it might actually be a stripped version of moblin.
But I seriously doubt you will see any of the developers sticking up there hands when someone asks for volunteers to get in bed with another Linux distro.
I think you're right but I am not that into Linux. But I can make an effort to gather some people who share the vision I drawed.