Xbmc is an excellent media centre, but for a laptop I'd probably just use
Ubuntu/mplayer/rythembox etc.
On 4 Sep 2010, at 10:04, Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson@???> wrote:
Hello,
I'm rather out of touch with anything non-server, I'm afraid. I want to set
up a laptop for the children which they'll use mostly for watching DVDs,
listening to music, and browsing the web. I've always just used mplayer and
debian, but i suspect there are friendly shiny new alternatives and maybe
even dedicate distros.
I don't want to spend a lot of time hacking about with it, so something that
bundles needed codecs, and java and flash and so forth would be excellent.
What do you chaps recommend?
S.
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