Boxee: Streaming Media Goes Open Source

[admin]

As the rest of the world is catching on to the wonder that is streaming media we’re seeing more options for the serious HTPC die-hards. Boxee is the latest, an open source platform, endlessly customizable but only for experienced Mac or Linux users. If you’re interested, it begins Alpha testing next week.

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[fredk]

Interesting. Around Christmas, AMD anounced it was going to push hard to deliver stable video drivers for open source Linux.

If Boxbee can meet the criteria to gain access to HD content (the fundimentals of which are decidedly NOT open source), I can easily ditch my restrictive M$ OS and have a single box solution where I don't have to pay hundreds of extra $ for the right to swap out hardware at will.