How's FreeBSD's Blu-Ray Support?
So my blu-ray player reached the end of it's reasonably long life and I'm looking for a replacement. Instead of dropping 200 dollars on an inflexible piece of hardware, I figured that I might as well just build a much more useful budget PC instead.
Windows is pretty expensive, so I decided to download a FOSS OS, and settled with FreeBSD. Not only would this save me about a hundred dollars, but I'd also have a brand new build target to port my projects to along with the ability to test it.
I heard that *nix Blu-ray support was pretty much non-existent several years ago, is this still true? How is the driver situation?
If it isn't great I'll just settle for Linux or dish out money for Windows.
Windows is pretty expensive, so I decided to download a FOSS OS, and settled with FreeBSD. Not only would this save me about a hundred dollars, but I'd also have a brand new build target to port my projects to along with the ability to test it.
I heard that *nix Blu-ray support was pretty much non-existent several years ago, is this still true? How is the driver situation?
If it isn't great I'll just settle for Linux or dish out money for Windows.
Isn't BSD a bit overkill for a settop computer? Any particular feature you need that you can't get in one of those nifty micro-distros?
I don't know, I never used a micro-distro before. Can you recommend one? Does it play blu-ray well?
Well, I can't really recommend one, but since they're so small, downloading a few and trying each one from a Flash drive to see if they support your hardware [edit]is not too hard[/edit].
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FreeBSD has a Linux compatibility layer so it should work with most things that work on Linux. Probably not drivers, though.
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