GeeXboX fully ported to Raspberry Pi

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    GeeXboX - a popular free distribution based on XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' and the Linux kernel, which is a lightweight media center - has received full support for the Raspberry Pi architecture . Full OpenGL ES hardware acceleration for XBMC is available, hardware video decoding up to 1080p HD and control from a TV remote via HDMI-CEC .
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    There has not yet been an official release, but test builds are already regularly posted on the developers website .
    It is worth noting that GeeXboX assemblies also exist for other compact computers Pandaboard, Cubox, ux500 Snowball, nVidia Tegra2 Harmony.

    By the way, our country seems to be waiting for an explosion of raspberi-structure. After all, the device has become available as never before. For example, one large retail chain (Google to help) announced the widespread availability in its stores.
    Raspberry Pi at a price of 2 390 rubles for a bare fee

    At the same time, several merchants on Amazon are selling the Raspberry Pi Model B Revision 2.0 (512MB) with a transparent case for $ 60 (~ 1800 rubles) with delivery to any city in Russia in 3-4 days and a branded guarantee from Amazon. Thus, you can get a full-fledged omnivorous TV set-top box for a little more than 2 thousand rubles, which can also be individually adapted to your needs.

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