Piren MGS (Multimedia Gateway System) is a Piren derived distribution, that expands the common multimedia system with networking and security features that are particularly suitable for a SOHO environment, but that is powerful enough also for professional purposes. Once loaded, you can configure and administer it using the web browser available from the Freevo user interface, or every other host in your LAN.

It is time for another Piren update, trying to improve the live Media Centre distribution more and more on each release. While the main software base seems to be the same, there are several new features that are giving this version a big step forward. As the previous release, Piren 8.2 is based upon Debian Etch R2 and uses only Debian Etch related packages. Most of the system comes from the official Debian repositories, but there are others for some of the key packages, like Freevo or MPlayer.