2009-03-23, 12:09
olympia Wrote:http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=300779&postcount=8
After I had read this post (and this is not the first from this kind), I decided not to maintain this guide in the future.
(If althekiller had read the initial notes and warnings, he would had realized, this is for a non-gdm setup, there was also a warning for that with red, therefore not make sense an other warning in the middle of the guide to think twice, and use gdm (which is even not installed, so just confusing the users), and as such...)
So, please consider a FULL UBUNTU INSTALLATION in the future, as this is the OFFICIAL and SUPPORTED way from Team-XBMC!
Without official welcome and support from Team-XBMC, maintaining the guide further is not worth the efforts and doesn't make any sense.
However, it was a nice fun for me till today.
Olympia
That is really really unfortunate. I think that the demand of having a full featured HTPC-setup using open source and without having to install alot of uneccessary software onto it is huge.
This guide is in many aspects a really good set-up. It's free, it's versitale, it's user(/girlfirend)-friendly (when all set-up) and you know exactly what is installed on your PC.
If you don't use the desktop (GDM, Gnome etc), and I think many aren't, then why install it? Keep it simple and clean imo.
However, to set-up a Linux install with XBMC to run in this way is not really a simple task, but with this guide anyone can do it. I understand though that there is quite alot of things that can go wrong, and when it does it is more complicated to solve, but I think that is kind of included in the disclaimer.
I'll continue running my HTPC like this and am thanking olympia to have written this guide in the first place.