DistroStuff

Hi folks,It’s been a while since latest Enna’s news entry. A few work has been done for the last couple of weeks and the picture wall you’ve seen earlier is now fully integrated. Theme also has changed a bit, in order to become a bit lighter and a new menu top bar has appeared, with [...]

Sat, 29 Nov 2008

Regarding GPU, I always used to be an nVidia fan, especially considering Linux. I do like Intel too, but only because they have a relatively good OSS Linux driver (and having a MacMini, it’s well appreciated) but, on my main PC, I had to choose between ATI and nVidia and the choice was obvious.The sad [...]

Sun, 16 Nov 2008

It’s been 2 weeks since 1.2-beta1 release and results were mitigated. Some people are pretty enthusiastics as it used to worked out of the box, others were disappointed as nothing worked at all The first good news is that a lot of issues have been isolated (and hopefully fixed). There used to be breakages [...]

Sun, 16 Nov 2008

It’s finally there ! I’ve been able to produce the 1.2-beta1 release for both i386 and x86_64 computers. Now it’s up to you guys to test it out and report the most bugs you can till final 1.2 release.See GeeXboX website for more info on what has changed with this release.       [...]

Sun, 2 Nov 2008

Hi,It’s been 3 weeks since latest post on upcoming GeeXboX 1.2-beta1 release and here are more news. Many efforts have been done to stabilize the development tree and it’s hopefully hte case today. Due to some nasty kernel configuration (actually it’s been there for a few weeks/months I guess), many X.Org video drivers had difficulties [...]

Sun, 26 Oct 2008

Evas (Enlightenment canvas toolkit) is an extraordinary library and one of its awesome feature is being extremely fast to load and render objects, like pictures. As a result, that’s one of the reasons why we’ve choose it for Enna. But let’s see what can be done with it You’ll find below an example of [...]

Sun, 5 Oct 2008

When one does look at GeeXboX homepage, he can see “So, just stay tuned, most of these features are already available, and 1.2 won’t take a year to come this time.“under 1.1 release post, from 1st of July 2007. [...]

Sun, 5 Oct 2008

Extensive work has been commited to Enna’s development tree over the last few weeks. Many bugs have been fixed (though many still remain) and a few more modules have been added. Enna reached a point where the basic features (photo display and local audio/video files playback) are fullfilled.Let’s start with the photo module. As you [...]

Sun, 14 Sep 2008

A few years ago, I had to work on UPnP A/V protocol for work. This is a service from the UPnP specifications that is used by many so-called audio/video players/servers (mostly set-top-boxes) to provide an easy way to share and stream multimedia content. Having worked on it, I’ve decided to write a small UPnP A/V [...]

Sun, 24 Aug 2008

Today’s news aims at introducing you to Enna Media Center. Enna is a software originally designed and created by Nicolas Aguirre. It consists of a nice UI based around Enlightenment E17 librairies (Evas, Ecore …) and will be part of the latter one the time has come. Its purpose is to implement all the necessary [...]

Tue, 19 Aug 2008