Battleangel

GeeXboX is a “full operating system, running under Linux and based on the excellent MPlayer. No need for a hard drive, you just have to put the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of any Pentium-class computer to boot it. Moreover, GeeXboX is free software, created as open-source software. This means that everyone can modify it and build his own release of the GeeXboX.“

Now that is useful! Very nifty to have around, even if you have a full install of XP. It saves a bunch of time, and lets you run a slave computer with no harddrive that can access media from the network. It supports everything from joystick interface to the ATI Remote Wonder. The only remaining question is if it supports Matrox for tv-out or not. At any rate, Matrox G400, unlike many other cards, can be flashed to activate a clone function already at the bios initialization. Someone should build a barebone with a big enough flash rom to hold this boot image. That would be truly great, but for now, a bootable cd will suffice.