454Part IIIChoosing and Installing a (Web host sites) Linux DistributionIf you
454Part IIIChoosing and Installing a Linux DistributionIf you think MoviX is cool, you ll really like the idea of the eMoviX project. WitheMoviX, you put a mini-MoviX distribution on a CD or DVD with your video, sothatyour video content comes with its own bootable player! (See http://movix. sourceforge.net/Docs/eMoviXfor details.) At the time of this writing, MoviX hadn t reached a 1.0 release number yet. Thatimplies that there are probably more features and bug fixes to come before thedevelopers feel comfortable calling it a real release. While there are still some roughedges to it, MoviX is fun to play with. GeeXboXGeeXboX (www.geexbox.org) is another bootable multimedia player distribution. From the screen that appears after GeeXboX boots, you can use your cursor toselect the location of the content you want to choose. Like MoviX, you can play avariety of audio and video content. It also boots up on your network, so you can getaudio and video content from it. Because GeeXboX is so small (just a few megabytes), you can fit it easily on a mini- CD, bootable business card, or even a pen drive (provided your computer can bebooted from those media). There is no graphical interface; you just use the keyboardto select content and simple controls from menus. Use arrow keys to move among the few GeeXboX selections (Open, Controls, Options, Help, and Quit). Press Enter to make a selection. You can open a file from hard disk, a music playlist, directory of images, or removable media (DVD, VCD/XCD, or audioCD) containing video content. Press M to show or hide menus and use P to pause. Booting Tiny Desktop DistributionsIf you want to take Linux on the road so you can read your e-mail and browse theWeb, there are a bunch of mini-desktop distributions that fit in 64MB or less. Becausemost of these distributions are based on KNOPPIX, you get many of the great fea- tures of hardware detection, network connections, and software installation built in. The distributions, however, focus on getting the most important applications avail- able to you in a small space. For that reason, they may not have drivers for everypiece of hardware on your computer or include your favorite software. However, once you are up and running, because these distributions are capable of booting upon the network, they often let you download the software you want to use right intoyour running system. Two examples of tiny desktop Linux distributions are Damn Small Linux andFeather Linux.
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