Project Summary
The purpose of this project is built the best server software to serve digital music to the Roku Soundbridge and iTunes; to be able to serve the widest variety of digital music content over the widest range of devices. Current stable releases have been reported to run on Linux, all the BSDs, Solaris, AIX, and a variety of embedded devices such as the Linksys NSLU2, the Maxtor MSS, and the Buffalo Linkstation, to name but a few.
In a Nutshell, Firefly Media Server...
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took an estimated 16 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in October, 2003
ending with its most recent commit about 17 years ago
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