[mythtv-users] xbox frontend

[Derek Watson]

15 seconds to boot and no coding sounds great :-)

I'm quite familiar with Linux but by no means a guru... so where do we 
start?

Derek.

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>There are daemons, processes, etc that get started to get a multi-user 
>environment.  I think if we strip out everything that isnt needed, it could 
>be done in around 15 seconds.  That isnt much different than it takes to 
>start xbmp.  Since nothing would change in the xbox-mythfrontend, the disk 
>image could be mounted read only.  Then you wouldnt have to worry about the 
>corrupt disk or even checking the disk.
>
>To me this gets the same net result without any coding, just a lot of 
>cleanup.  There also wouldnt be a need to keep in sync with the myth team 
>as far as code/bug/api changes.  You could just download a new version and 
>add it to the tiny linux distro and call it good.

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