[mythtv-users] xbox frontend

[travis]

I have debian running on my xbox and would be willing to chip in some
work as well.  Drop me a line if a project sprouts up out of the
discussions.

-- Travis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Derek Watson
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:06 PM
> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] xbox frontend
> 
> 15 seconds to boot and no coding sounds great :-)
> 
> I'm quite familiar with Linux but by no means a guru... so where do we
> start?
> 
> Derek.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >There are daemons, processes, etc that get started to get a
multi-user
> >environment.  I think if we strip out everything that isnt needed, it
> could
> >be done in around 15 seconds.  That isnt much different than it takes
to
> >start xbmp.  Since nothing would change in the xbox-mythfrontend, the
> disk
> >image could be mounted read only.  Then you wouldnt have to worry
about
> the
> >corrupt disk or even checking the disk.
> >
> >To me this gets the same net result without any coding, just a lot of
> >cleanup.  There also wouldnt be a need to keep in sync with the myth
team
> >as far as code/bug/api changes.  You could just download a new
version
> and
> >add it to the tiny linux distro and call it good.
> 
> <snip>
> 
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