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Boxee aims to shake up the home theater

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 9 comments
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Boxee is a new entrant into the increasingly crowded open source media center space. The company's eponymous application is billed as a "social media center" -- melding a smorgasbord of social networking services into an XBMC-based media center designed for the couch-centric user. Boxee has bigger goals in mind, but you can take an early look at it now by applying for the invitation-only testing program.

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Comments (9)

techiem2 ·
with having a foss based, linux and mac targeting program/service that uses a flash front page with no skip link......
tracyanne ·
cccan't access their site, I just get a black screen, oh well too bad.
herzeleid ·
The site works fine for me using firefox as shipped with suse 11.0
techiem2 ·
The site works fine for me...if I allow scripts...and if I let the flash load... Which is the point, they use a flash intro vid with no bypass link. Which isn't exactly Linux friendly considering the state of flash in Linux.
tracyanne ·
I block scripts by default, I don't like flash websites, and won't use them, which is why I din't bother disabling script blocking. Flash is fine, in it's place, which is serving up content or web based games, not building sites from.
Steven_Rosenber ·
One of my new "jobs" involves maintaining a Flash site. And yes, I do feel like I've gone over to the dark side every time I step over to the Mac to fire it up.
herzeleid ·
> Which isn't exactly Linux friendly considering the state of flash in Linux.

hmm - I haven't seen any flash sites that give me any trouble - at least, not since macromedia finally got around to releasing flash 9 for the platform anyway.
techiem2 ·
Have they released a proper 64 bit port yet?
herzeleid ·
> Have they released a proper 64 bit port yet?

I'm guessing probably not.

Maybe someday 3rd parties will fully support 64 bit linux but for now I go with the flow and run 32 bit on the desktop, because I want things to just work.

I do run 64 bit linux on big servers that need to be 64 bit.

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