Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Samba, XEmacs, Boxee, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, Inkscape, Plex, Voddler, NeoOffice, MediaPortal, Joomla, Mozilla Corporation software rebranded by the Debian project, MindTouch Deki, LibreOffice, Fork, GNU IceCat, Epiphany, MirOS BSD, Dreamwidth, Koha, LibLime, Drizzle, SK1, FreeWRT, RavenNuke, FrostWire, X.Org Server, Jupp, SXEmacs, Gnuzilla, Dbndns, Openswan. Excerpt: Boxee (officially trademarked as BOXEE) is a cross-platform freeware HTPC (Home Theater PC) software application with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV. Boxee was originally a fork of the free and open source XBMC media center software which Boxee now uses as an application framework for its GUI and media player core platform, together with some custom and proprietary additions. Marketed as the first ever "Social Media Center," Boxee enables its users to view, rate and recommend content to their friends through many social network services and interactive media related features. One notable feature missing in Boxee is the ability to watch and record live TV received via over-the-air TV, cable or satellite signals. Boxee's software application is still considered to be in its early development stages and is currently available as beta release versions for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, as well as Apple TV, for computers with x86 architecture processors. The first public alpha of Boxee was made available on 16 June 2008, and the first public beta version was officially released for all previously supported platforms on 7 January 2010. The developers of Boxee have stated that their goal is to have Boxee media center software run on as many third-party hardware platforms and operating systems as possible, and they have so far co-developed a dedicated set-top box (hardware) called "Boxee Box by D-Link" in...
