My Perfect Media Center
A lightweight OpenSuse for Media Center or Home Theater PCs (MCPC, HTPC) with live-installer after boot!
Also with bluraysupport, XBMC (MediaCenter) and the LXDE-Desktop. All up to date thanks to the rolling release repository Tumbleweed and optimezed packages for AMDs Zacate platform (Fusion E-350).
It logs automatically in into the default minimal KDE-Desktop (live installer in the menu); to change the Desktop default please log off once and choose from the bottem left menu LXDE or XBMC.
For buray support try the lxBDplayer or the makemkv-package (already installed as rpm or together with other not automatically installed but useful programs in the /home/bv3-directory. (There are also versions with only LXDE or XFCE)
Specs:
Boot-Design: Bran Van 3000 (BV3) – the best band in the world
Drivers: Kernel-desktop, Lirc (for remotes), Bluray, atiupgrade, ntfs
Other important packages: firefox, chromium, dropbox, gimp, yast, firewall, lirc, picasa, skype, mythtv, makemkv, torrent/rapidshare etc., codecs, ftp, emulators (nintendo), 7zip etc., (u)mplayer, zypper
Download
Media
ISO image
Burn this ISO file to a DVD (or CD, if the space allows), and you'll be able to boot directly from the disc.
Release notes
minor updates like preload package
Technical Details
Appliance configuration
Accounts
| User | Password |
|---|---|
| bv3 | Bv3 |
| root | BranVan3000 |
Basic settings
| Keyboard: | german |
|---|---|
| Time zone: | Europe/Berlin |
| Language: | de_DE.UTF-8 |
| Network: | dhcp |
| Firewall: | enabled |
Software
19 patterns, 1059 packagesView package list…
Security summary
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Includes the following unofficial sources:
hellgast , -
No custom software packages were uploaded.
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Overlay files were uploaded, but none are executable.
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No custom scripts were enabled.
Version 1.3.14
Testdrive
Older releases
- Version 1.3.2 – 278 days old
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Known Problems:
The testdrive and the live dvd run with no problems, but installing it on a 3TB HDD is not working. I tried everything: going for gpt-label with 3 tb or msdos-label with just 2 tb, both with and wihout separate boot partition etc. There seems to be a bug in the live-installer in combination with the configuration of the tumbleweed-kernels init behaviour (or maybe with grub) which freezes the boot process at the point where it trys to mount root (kernel panic).
Another problem with some graphic hardware may occur (screen distortion and freezing during boot), which is solved by typing “nomodeprobe” at the bootloaders interface.
Both problems do not appear when just insalling from opensuse 11.4 dvd (lxde desktop) and upgrading afterwards to tumbleweed and the other packages of this susestudio built.