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ByzanineOS is a software internet appliance with a home entertainment bias. It is based on a networked Linux distribution/bootable system with Mozilla providing access to a range of services and applications.
ByzanineOS fits in 32MB (or 48MB) of media and should work on any x86 based PC.
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Note: With ByzanineOS CD-ROM, there is no need of hard-disks, floppy drives and others. All is needed is a diskless computer with the following parts:
- CPU (Intel Pentium)
- Motherboard
- NIC (Network Interface Card) or MODEM
- CD-ROM drive (or DVD drive to play DVD-Video disks!!!)
- RAM (128 MB minimum for full graphics)
- VESA 2.0 compliant graphic card
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Features
The ByzanineOS distro is now in its first stable release. It is based on standard GNU/Linux components, mostly compiled without any modification.
- Linux-2.4.22 / Glibc-2.3.2 with devfs support
- devfsd-1.3.25
- squashfs-1.3r2
- alsa-0.9.8
- dhcpcd-1.3.22-pl4
- busybox-1.0-pre8
- epkg-v2.3.8
- openssh-3.7.1p2 (clients)
- DirectFB-0.9.20 / XDirectFB-1.0-rc5
- Metacity-2.6.3
- Mozilla-1.6 suite
- Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_04
- MPlayer 0.92 (mplayerplug-in-2.50)
- XMMS-1.2.10
- Gaim-0.76
- Acrobat5 as a XPI ByzantineOS DropIn
- and their dependencies.
