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LinuxMCE returns

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"

Filed under: News, Linux, Open Source

Linux MCE 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. Linux MCE, which wraps MythTV up into a nice package and places it squarely on top of the leading Linux distribution Ubuntu -- may be poised to change some of that.

Take the leap to watch a demonstration of the Linux MCE project running on a home TV, and a comparison to Windows Media Center Edition.

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