ByzantineOS 20040404 review

ByzantineOS is a software Internet Appliance with a home entertainment bias

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: ByzantineOS Group

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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.

Here are some key features of "ByzantineOS":
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