Better mini-itx boards support
Unlike most mini-distributions iMedia Linux has been tuned for all VIA mini-itx boards supporting 3D OpenGL hardware acceleration, 2D acceleration, MPEG acceleration support in MPlayer and MythTV using the latest OpenChrome drivers, Via Padlock, Via Audio, Via Network and different addon cards like PCMCIA slots and PCMCIA Compact Flash slots. Also iMedia linux provides custom compiled kernels for VIA C3, VIA C7, VIA Nehemiah (C3-2), i586, i686 and Pentium 4 which increase the performance and stability of the system. Extended Wireless support
iMedia Embedded Linux uses ndiswrapper for wireless network cards which supports mini-pci, pci, pcmcia and usb wireless cards. Ndiswrapper allows iMedia Linux to be able to use the windows drivers of the devices without binay emulation by implementing Windows NDIS API into linux kernel, increasing the number of supported devices. Users just need to copy their windows drivers to the media where iMedia Linux is installed to start using their device, no compiling is necessary. Ndiswrapper is also working with other communication devices like USB to serial port device, ethernet card, home phone network device etc. Wide range of installation targets and boot devices
iMedia Embedded Linux can be installed almost anywere including Compact Flashes, USB hard drives, USB ZIP, USB memory sticks, SATA or SCSI hard drives or other media and by using GRUB boot loader it can also boot from the network.iMedia Linux has a special boot loader configuration menu making it possible for example to install the distribution to a Compact Flash using a USB media adapter and then change the configuration to use the installed compact flash as a primary IDE disk (it doesn't matter if the boot disk is primary or secondary) iMedia Linux doesn't autodetect the CPU in the computer used for installation making it possible to use another computer to install this distribution to different kinds of CPUs by letting the user to choose his desired CPU. Our distribution is also emulator friendly and can be run in VMWare, Virtual PC or another emulator. Graphical boot process
By default iMedia Embedded Linux uses a graphical boot screen by using the graphic card framebuffer. The boot splash image has a small window which displays what services are being started. The graphical boot can be disabled from the instalation program. Also iMedia Linux can provide a complete silent booting (black screen), verbose booting or has the ability to send the messages to a small LCD device.The style of booting can also be modified by creating a empty file in /etc/ named boot.silent or boot.lcd. Also iMedia linux uses a customised GRUB boot loader version which is totally silent. This behaviour can be altered from