ultrabrutal Wrote:raid, you keep talking about tying? no one is tying anything! we are talking about a common platform for support/development. there is nothing tied that will make it not work on any pc except incompatibilities in hardware and drivers on those pc's. appletv and macmini are just pc's. any incompatibility problems will of course also be fixed by users and/or team members one way or the other - so fear not!

Quote:@jonb2, pike and I are the two Project Managers of The XBMC Project. Yes it is true that we do not always speak for all the developers, and we have/will never claim that we to do, however as active contributers to the project we do enjoy the ears of the projects developers which in most cases weighs more than someone that do not contribute at all. As with all open source hobby projects (which XBMC is) everyone working on the project do so for free, thus we can not bark orders at anyone. Eveyone have their own personal agenda for working on XBMC, some do it for fun, others for the challenge or experince, and some (if not most) do it because XBMC is a software that they themself use on a regular basis, (this is the reason why some features in XBMC no longer have an maintaner at all and are completly ignored, and why other existing and new features gain all the attention of some developers). Basicly if you want something done for sure in an open source software project then you have to do it yourself, so those who do nothing to contribute at all will most of the times just be ignored.

In any case, the fact remains that at least Pike and I agree that (at this time) restricting the official support to a couple of specified reference hardware platforms will be the right thing to do for The XBMC Project (once the XBMC Linux is mature enough). This might very well have changed in six-months. Nevertheless, users wanting to use XBMC Linux port on other hardware will have nothing to fear, we are sure that third-party websites and communities will be created that build and support their own Linux Distros with XBMC with their preferences, that is not a bad thing.

PS! What it is that make you jonb2 think that you have all the answers and eveyone should do what you say? If you have not noticed it you do not tend to use frases like "I think that...", "I feel this.." or "My personal opinion is...". Instead you speak as eveything you say is fact and should be blindly obeyed, and I think that is a very annoying trade in a person. Other people have been hanging around in these forums for years and they all managed to use common sense and good netiquette, but you we do not know so why should we respect your options, for all we know you could be a 12-year old shut-in with no social-interaction or real-world experience, who believes trolling and flaming is a cleaver way to get you heared online. I say that all you done so far is spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt).

By the way, what I am going here is called constructive criticism, and though my guess is that you will probably answer me in an immature way and do some more trolling, trying to spread more FUD, but how about if you instead try to take in what others and myself said, then continue this discussion in a mature way, respecting other peoples opinions and try to contribute to the XBMC project in a possitive and groove way? ...if not then this is probably the last time someone replies to you in this forum.

Jezz_X Wrote:wow everyone has so much to say on this topic

ultrabrutal Wrote:once again... nothing is tied or limited! you can run xbmc on anything which supports it's requirements.

Quote:you have no suggestions other that support any hardware and that is impossible and unrealistik.

Quote: There is no question the devs know what they are doing or that it will succeed or if it will run on various hardware configurations. It will.

Quote: once ported to linux this will run on ten thousand hardware configurations, no ifs and or buts.