LinuxMCE 0810: what’s new?
As you may know LinuxMCE community is working hard on the new version. The 0810 is based on Kubuntu 8.10 and currently it’s near to beta. Let’s see what’s new we’ll see in the LinuxMCE 0810:
- Games. In 0810 we’ll able to play in arcade games using MAME plugin. It allows to list, play and pause as well as retrieve metadata from the game packages.
- Z-Wave interface. During preparation a new version Z-Wave interface was improved a lot. It becomes faster and more stable and supports more devices and PC interfaces.
- PVR. MythTV and VDR uses the same directory to store recorded data. The PVR section on the Orbiter contains list of channels, EPG, recording program and more.
- UPnP. The UPnP server in 0810 was changed to Mediatomb which provides better functionality then fuppes used in 0710.
- New IP phones. Two new IP phones were added to the 0810 as PnP devices: Cisco 7910 и Aastra.
- New HID. It’ll allow to use devices such remote control Gyration 3101 to control your system.
- Video adapters. Identification of nVidia and Intel graphic adapters was improved to avoid manual installation of needed drivers.
- Bug fixes. During the preparation of the new version many old bugs were fixed as well as unnecessary packages were deleted from the system.
The latest 0810 alpha 2.24 is usable. Sure it has some problems but it’s already ready for beta. I suspect that delay is cosing by missed DVD installation. But I hope it’ll be released soon. If you’d like to contribute a new functionality or some patch be free to contact with core developers in the IRC channel #linuxmce-devel.
Also design of LinuxMCE site was changed. Now it looks more professional and fresh.