This Linux Home Entertainment System is now available for download

Oct 22, 2013 13:19 GMT  ·  By

LinHES (Linux Home Entertainment System), a distribution loosely based on ArchLinux that centers around MythTV and designed for Home Theater PCs (HTPC), is now at version 8.0.

LinHES 8.0 has been released only for the 64-bit platform, but it does feature a lot of changes and improvements.

Highlights of LinHES 8.0:

• All the old Nvidia drivers have been dropped and only the current ones, for the 8xxxx series, gt2xx and later, have been kept; • xconfig.sh will no longer generate full xorg.conf files; • Fbsplash has been removed and has been replaced with plymouth; • grub2 has replaced grub; • Fluxbox has been replaced by enlightenment; • A language selection screen during install has been added; • A new OSD message subsystem has been implemented.

Check the official announcement for more details about this release. Download LinHES 8.0 right now from Softpedia.