The epidermal reaction was instantaneous, yet there are the hair-raising by lowly witnesses. Nothing more to burn the ISO disk image and put the CD in the player, which was our surprise to discover the friendly and intuitive interface of GeeXboX 1.2 Beta 3, embarking a Linux distribution specifically designed for operational and play both audio and video files from a Boot CD.

Linux GeeXboX 1.2 Beta 3 reduced to its essence, focusing on multimedia playback with the popular and excellent Mplayer. It goes without any hard disk or installed operating systems, only one player and the CD-ROM boot disk with GeeXboX, similar to MoviX, and completely free.

GeeXboX 1.2 Beta 3 offers an interface, a navigation menu with a very simple, thanks to the arrow keys on the keyboard, from which you can access all the playback controls and options GeeXboX. Play your favorite videos in formats DivX, XviD, FFmpeg, MPEG 1 / 2, VCD, DVD, OggMedia, Windows Media, RealMedia, etc.., As well as MP3 audio files, Audio CD, Ogg / Vorbis, and so on.

Finally, it offers support TCP / IP and Ethernet networks, in addition to the video outputs of most video cards such as S3, nVidia and ATI. Since then, it has everything, even the ability to display subtitles, but there is something missing, and it is the ability to display images, which would make GeeXboX 1.2 Beta 3, the multimedia-focused Linux distribution, preferred by many users, if not the majority.

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