Andrew Gillis from the VortexBox development team announced two days ago (December 21st) the final release of the VortexBox 1.0 media server operating system. VortexBox will turn your computer into an easy-to-use and out-of-the-box music jukebox and server. With it, you can rip Audio CDs to the FLAC and MP3 formats, add ID3 tags, grab album art and stream music files on your network. Among the new features brought by VortexBox 1.0, we can mention:
· FLAC to m4a (Apple Lossless) mirroring via the web interface;
· CDDB and MusicBrainz can be used for ID3 tags;
· Added tool-tips for each section in the graphical user interface;· Upgrade softwar via the web interface;
· Lots of bug fixes!
VortexBox is a Fedora-based Linux distribution that turns any computer into a music server or jukebox. It automatically rips Audio CDs to MP3 and FLAC files with ID3 tags and covert art, then it streams the music files to a network player such as Logitech Squeezebox, Linn or Sonos, and even to a Windows or Macintosh system. For installation, VortexBox requires an empty hard drive. It doesn't work on a hard disk partition.
Highlights of VortexBox 1.0:
· Based on Fedora Linux;
· Easy to use and modify;
· Turns an old PC into a fast CD ripper, Jukebox or NAS (network-attached storage);
· Automatic ID3 tagging;
· Automatic album art downloader;
· Automatic file sharing via SMB;
· Squeezebox Server automatic file re-indexing;
· Support for AppleTalk and Bonjour;
· DAAP support (allows sharing of MP3 files to be streamed on Roku Soundbridge and iTunes;
· NFS (Network File System) support) for Linux systems;
· DLNA support for PS3 or XBOX 360;
· Support for AlianBBC (by installing MPlayer);
· Sonos support;
· XBMC (XBOX Media Center) backend server support.Download
· FLAC to m4a (Apple Lossless) mirroring via the web interface;
· CDDB and MusicBrainz can be used for ID3 tags;
· Added tool-tips for each section in the graphical user interface;· Upgrade softwar via the web interface;
· Lots of bug fixes!
VortexBox is a Fedora-based Linux distribution that turns any computer into a music server or jukebox. It automatically rips Audio CDs to MP3 and FLAC files with ID3 tags and covert art, then it streams the music files to a network player such as Logitech Squeezebox, Linn or Sonos, and even to a Windows or Macintosh system. For installation, VortexBox requires an empty hard drive. It doesn't work on a hard disk partition.
Highlights of VortexBox 1.0:
· Based on Fedora Linux;
· Easy to use and modify;
· Turns an old PC into a fast CD ripper, Jukebox or NAS (network-attached storage);
· Automatic ID3 tagging;
· Automatic album art downloader;
· Automatic file sharing via SMB;
· Squeezebox Server automatic file re-indexing;
· Support for AppleTalk and Bonjour;
· DAAP support (allows sharing of MP3 files to be streamed on Roku Soundbridge and iTunes;
· NFS (Network File System) support) for Linux systems;
· DLNA support for PS3 or XBOX 360;
· Support for AlianBBC (by installing MPlayer);
· Sonos support;
· XBMC (XBOX Media Center) backend server support.Download
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Earlier this year we shared that Valve's Source Engine is coming to Linux after receiving some information that pointed in this direction. In addition, a year ago Valve Software was publicly looking for a senior software engineer to port Windows-based games to Linux platform. There have long been rumors and hopes among Linux users that Steam games would become natively available for Linux, but we have additional confirmation that Valve Software has ported their Steam game client to Linux. In Valve's most recent title, Left 4 Dead, there are shared Linux libraries shipping alongside this Windows game client.We were tipped off this morning by an attentive Phoronix reader that in the demo copy of Left 4 Dead there were several Linux library files worth investigating. In particular, one of these files was even named steamclient_linux.so. This is in the Windows demo client -- we're not referring to the Linux dedicated server-only version. Left 4 Dead is a first person shooter developed by Turtle Rock Studios and then acquired by Valve and is written around the Source Engine. Left 4 Dead brings several new features to the Source Engine such as post-processing effects, rendering and AI improvements, and dynamic lighting and shadowing improvements. The Windows client was released earlier this month and a playable demo a few days before the release. The retail game is distributed via Valve's Steam client, but the demo is no longer available through the Steam network.With the demo version, there were shared libraries for Linux with the game client on Windows. The Left 4 Dead playable demo has twenty Linux library files shipping with the client (not simply the dedicated server version) and among them were steamclient_linux.so, studiorender_i486.so, vstdlib_i486.so, libsteam_api_linux.so, and engine_i486.so. We had bought the Left 4 Dead Windows game through Steam to continue our investigation, but the shared libraries were not to be found in that build at this time. The Linux files are obviously also present in the latest dedicated Linux server for Left 4 Dead through the HLDS utility.
We had explored the various shared libraries using the strings command. Among the many strings within steamclient_linux.so that caught our attention were k_EMsgClientRequestForgottenPasswordEmailResponse, k_EMsgClientGetLobbyMetadataResponse, k_EMsgClientPurchaseWithMachineID, k_EMsgClientGamesPlayed, k_EMsgAMSetCommunityState, SetOverlayNotificationPosition hates linux, Average %.2f fps, %.2f ms per frame, Steam_GSSendSteam3UserConnect, GetBillingAddress. These strings plus hundreds of other technically shouldn't be needed if this were simply for Linux server usage -- even though no Linux server binary ships with the Windows game on Steam.
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First things first, you need a new hard drive. It can be external if you want. But you have to be able to mount it as a directory in DSL (Damn Small Linux)
Now you need to borrow someone else computer (cause yours is screwed right?).
Download DSL (damn small linux)Just goggle “Damn Small Linux Download”, you’ll find it. Got it? Good, now boot it.
After booting you will see the GUI of the DSL, run TERMINAL
and follow this command
*Note: this command will make you a super user in DSL
#sudo su
*Note: this command will mount you HDD on DSL
#mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
*Note: this command will check if your data is still on the HDD
#cd /mnt/hda1
#ls -al Found any data? If not stop here and cry.
If yes move on.
Since you already have you new hard drive connected to your PC just run this command series.
#mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1
#cd /mnt/hdc1
#mkdir backup
#cp -R /mnt/hda1/*.* /mnt/hdc1/backup
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