Mythbuntu 7.04 Public Alpha 1

Mythbuntu is based on the ever-popular Ubuntu Linux operating system. Mythbuntu makes it extremely easy to setup MythTV so that you can quickly begin recording your favorite shows.
Main features:
- Basic ’live-tv’ functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind "live" TV.
- Support for multiple tuner cards and multiple simultaneous recordings.
- Distributed architecture allowing multiple recording machines and multiple playback machines on the same network, completely transparent to the user.
- Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping
- Grabs program information using xmltv.
- Displays basic program information on channel change using a themeable semi-transparent on-screen display.
- Electronic Program Guide that lets you change channels and select programs to record.
- Scheduled recordings of TV programs, and playback and deletion of those programs, all through a themeable UI.
- A nice web interface to let you select programs to record remotely.
- Rip, categorize, play, and visualize MP3/Ogg/FLAC/CD Audio files. (FLAC, Vorbis, and MP3 encoding). Create complex playlists (and playlists containing playlists) through a simple UI.
- An emulator frontend. (MAME, NES, SNES, generic PC games)
- An image viewer/slideshow application.
- A weather module.
- A generic video player module, with automatic metadata lookups
- A DVD player / ripper module. Make perfect backups, or transcode down to smaller file sizes.
- An RSS news feed reader module.
MythTV is also well known for the selection of plugins that are available, as well as some themes.