freepia 0.3.8 review

Freepia is a small GNU/Linux distribution designed to run on Via Epia-M Mainboards

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 61286K Developer: freepia Team

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Freepia is a small GNU/Linux distribution designed to run on Via Epia-M Mainboards. It currently runs on the M-9000 and M-10000 (ezra and nehemiah cpu) but with some modifications like kernel and X11 modules it should run on others too.

The main motivation behind this project is to build a full featured, low noise media box to play movies/mp3s/images etc. For this it uses freevo but in the future there maybe support for others like mythtv or vdr.

Here are some key features of "freepia":
VIA ezra cpu support
VIA nehemiah cpu support
iso version available to boot entirely from cdrom
optional store configuration on IDE or USB devices
fast startup (