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LinuxMCE returns
by Grant Robertson Mar 27th 2007
After days of waiting (for us) and work behind the scenes (for them), the Linux Media Center Edition or LinuxMCE project has turned on the pilot light again. The project had been impossible to download after a recent (and unexpected) Digg. If you're anxious to get your hands on LinuxMCE, which is a fork of the Pluto Home project designed to run on off-the-shelf hardware, you can grab the Install CD via Bittorrent, and the installer package for Ubuntu 6.10 from the LinuxMCE project site. You'll need both for a complete installation.
More about LinuxMCE in our previous post, "LinuxMCE looks hot"
MythTV, the popular Linux based PVR project, has been around for some time. It's nice, and it functions well, but it's only as functional as Windows Media Center Edition plus, it can be difficult to install and configure. 
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
