{"id":702,"date":"2009-11-06T13:20:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2009-11-12T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T19:53:20","slug":"tiny-linux-media-player-distributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Linux media player distributions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I download the new release of <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/obfuscar\/\">Obfuscar<\/a> (now with what I would consider a complete feature set), I&#8217;ve been searching for a minimal Linux version to use as a media player. I&#8217;d prefer something that doesn&#8217;t require a hard drive, because those are noisy. And it needs a good web browser with javascript support. There are dozens of them, right?<\/p>\n<p>My first choice, and the usual answer to all &#8220;lightweight Linux distro&#8221; questions, is <a href=\"http:\/\/puppylinux.org\/main\/index.php\">Puppy Linux<\/a>. It boots from a CD, USB dongle, or whatever, and contains every feature imaginable. However, there is a problem: the latest release (4.3.1) does not include the latest linux kernel (2.6.31 or .32), which ultimately means it does not contain the drivers for the newer Sound Blaster X-Fi chipset. Which makes me sad, because Puppy is great.<\/p>\n<p>The Ubuntu livecd requires too much RAM to boot at all.<\/p>\n<p>Myrinix?<\/p>\n<p>So I am faced with a decision: keep looking for an ideal tiny distro, or roll my own Puppy with a newer kernel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I download the new release of Obfuscar (now with what I would consider a complete feature set), I&#8217;ve been searching for a minimal Linux version to use as a media player. I&#8217;d prefer something that doesn&#8217;t require a hard drive, because those are noisy. And it needs a good web browser with javascript support. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[214,53,213,212],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-jukebox","tag-linux","tag-obfuscar","tag-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}