I managed to setup
Xibo today. I had trouble setting up the Xibo server on a Ubuntu 10.10 workstation yesterday. So, today, I tried to setup the server on a Pentium 4 2.66 GHz running Windows XP Pro. Had to install Apache and MySQL server first. It took about half an hour to setup the server properly. Next, I installed the client on a Windows 7 Pro computer. Had to setup a user and permissions properly, but eventually got it to scroll an RSS feed and display 2 pictures (alternating at 1 second intervals). The only other alternative free digital signage solution is
Concerto from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Concerto is a pure Linux solution though - server and client must be on a *nix machine. The installation instructions were much sketchier for Concerto than Xibo, consequently, I chose Xibo. Now, Xibo might not have as many features as a commercial solution such as
Harris Infocaster, but it works and it is much less buggy. Yet another great Open Source Solution!
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