Boxee Ubuntu derivative (minimal, no GDM)

[fd9_]

I'm thinking about setting up a dedicated boxee box with a minimal Ubuntu server installation. In fact, I'd like to boot directly into boxee without having the overhead of GDM and other unnecessary packages. There's a guide on how to do exactly this for xbmc ( http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=32891 ), but requires a considerable amount of extra work which frankly, seems pretty daunting. With all the other customized Ubuntu derivatives popping up everywhere, wouldn't it be possible to make a Boxee derivative so that novices such as myself wouldn't have to set aside a week learning how to configure everything? I doubt I'm the only one who's interested in something like this. Imagine just being able to pop in a cd (or thumb drive) and have a custom Boxee installation on your HTPC in minutes.

Again, may not even be possible in the first place. I don't really know. Instead of a full-on derivative, it could just be something as simple as running a script after installing Ubuntu server.

Edit- so apparently there's something called "xbmc live" which is essentially just a live CD using xbmc, hence allowing you to boot directly into it. Interesting..

[jondotnet]

This is not quite a fully stripped down way of doing it but I have just set up a box running mythbuntu so has the xfce desktop which is very streamlined, only has minimal apps installed and I have set it up to open boxee automatically when the desktop loads.

Another idea is (if you want to install to a drive rather than run from a CD) is to download the debian netinstall iso and then as aprt of the setup only install the bare minimum. Once rebooted set up the boxee repository and run apt-get to install it. I would imagine you will still need some kind of x server environment/desktop to run it though.

J

[jdarnold]

There was posted around here, IIRC, a guide to a minimal Ubuntu install for Boxee. I'll have to see if I can find it.

Found it:

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=2046

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Thanks for sharing this useful information. It's great.

[KrisiaMae]

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=2046

Thanks jdarnold. It is very useful. Keep up the good work!

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