DistroSpecs
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Contributors: Sébastien GRIPON
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Summary
This specification describes the Ubuntu Media Center Software (aka UMC).
This effort, which is supported by the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMediaCenterTeam Ubuntu Media Center Team], will try to bring the Ubuntu paradigm (easy to install / use / update, beautiful artwork, feature rich and complete, ...) to this area.
It will only address the distribution part, that is to say an Ubuntu based system with multimedia features and out-of-the-box personal media center. Another [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MediaCenter/SoftwareSpecs Spec] will address the creation softwares included in this distribution.
This specification also supersed the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMediaCenter UMC previous attempt] done by Sébastien Gripon. This one is still kept for the comments.
Rationale
Ubuntu Media Center is available as a standalone distribution. The corresponding live CD exists in two versions :
- The light version is based on fbdev for dedicated appliance that needs a quick boot and with which not many packages are needed. This version can be installed on an hard disk for media center purpose only.
- The standard version is based on the Ubuntu Live CD. This version allows the user to switch to a standard desktop for working with other Ubuntu applications. This version is intended to be used for the installation of the Ubuntu Media Center distribution on hard disk.
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Scope
Design
Implementation
Code
Data preservation and migration
Unresolved issues