long work hours and unexpected events have caused me to not work on the boxee live cd for some time. im happy to say that in the coming weeks my schedule will be opened up enough for me to start working on a new release. look for it soon and as always, if you have any suggestions send them my way.
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i had an idea on how to spread open source while also giving back to my community by providing free linux based email and web servers for non-profit organizations. there are two different ways of accomplishing this idea:
- i host the email and web sites on my servers for no charge
- i obtain a donated server, install and configure the OS and services, and they host the email and web sites using their own internet service provider or host
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this is a simple mod that you can use to compress your website using gzip which will reduce your bandwidth. this is dead easy to setup in ubuntu. to do so, log into your webserver via ssh or locally if you dont run it headless like me. then enabled Read the rest of this entry »
ive been working on a new live cd of boxee using the xubuntu as the base install. this will hopefully fix some issues that people have been having with networking and sound. i will be using xubuntu 9.04 and the latest version of boxee (with hulu working!!!!).
also in the works is an official name for this project as well as the artwork. what does everyone think of Boxee Now? this logo is in no way an official logo for this project, its just something that i threw together in a few minutes for fun. If anyone wants to create a logo, please send it to boxee@brianmathis.net

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