ByzantineOS 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.
ByzantineOS fits in 32MB (or 48MB) of media and should work on any PC.
Note: With ByzantineOS 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
The ByzantineOS boots from a CD (business card-sized) and the first thing you will see is a basic menu which allows different types of booting options. These are:
ByzantineOS (Generic): 800x600 framebuffer
ByzantineOS (Generic HiRes) : 1024x768 framebuffer
Now once inside the ByzantineOS type:
startx
to start the X Windows system.
Features:
- 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
- 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
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