Welcome to WOMP!

This is the homepage for WOMP! A micro linux distribution focussed on multimedia.
Basically, it takes only 13 to 30 MB depending on the selected options on a bootable CD, and allow playing a wide range of multimedia files (video/audio/image) without installing any software on the computer's hard drive.

Additionnally, WOMP! can also be installed on the hard drive either to run in memory just like a bootable CD, or to run from a read-only loopback file which is interesting for machines with low memory. It can the be booted either by a floppy bootdisk or by a bootable CD (in that case it will only take 1.5MB on the CD leading all remaining space for multimedia files.

WOMP! uses the FrameBuffer for playing videos and X for interacting with the user. Hardware acceleration is provided by vidix. Cards that support vidix include nearly all ATI and Matrox cards, also NVidia in last release. Nevertheless even not accelerated, provided the processor is sufficiently recent there will be no problems playing divx files in fullscreen.

News : April 2005

Changes in this release :

• Language can be now be changed from the general menu
• Added Russian translation thanks to Ivan Trus
• Added Portuguese translation thanks to Roberto Azevodo

News : May 3rd 2004

Changes in this release :

• updated cz translation (Thanks to Jan Polzer jpolzer@seznam.cz )
• spanish translation ( Thanks to Jorge Israel Padilla Orozco jorgepadilla@hotmail.com)
• added a filter to select rar'ed vobsub files.
• updated MPlayer for reading rar'ed vobsub files with an arbitrary name (in previous version, the name of the rar file had to be the same as the included files). Note that the rar file had to be rar'ed with a 2.x version, 3.x is not supported.
• added xvidix video output, if it's working on your configuration you'll be able to adjust some image parameters with keys 1-2,3-4,5-6,7-8.
• Included new logo (Thanks to Paulo Aguas polag@free.fr)
• Added a test on memory size during decompaction, MozillaFirebird will only be decompacted if there's more than 192MB. This means that an iso with Firebird will be usable on a machine with 128MB, just firebird will not be available. I've added w3m also in the full iso so on such machine it will still be possible to browse the web.

Happy Womping! ^_^

Here's the new Womp! logo by Paulo