Mythbuntu Linux Has Been Discontinued (softpedia.com)

"Mythbuntu as a separate distribution will cease to exist. We will take the necessary steps to pull Mythbuntu specific packages from the repositories unless someone steps up to take these packages over," read Friday's announcement. prisoninmate writes: Mythbuntu was an operating system based on the widely-used Ubuntu Linux distro and built around the MythTV free and open source digital video recorder (DVR) project... The Mythbuntu team recommends users who want to use Mythbuntu to install the latest release of the Xubuntu Linux operating system and then add the Mythbuntu PPA (Personal Package Archive), which will continue to provide the latest MythTV releases and other related packages...

The first release of the OS was back when Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) was announced, and the last one was Mythbuntu 16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus). From this point...there will be no new ISO images anymore. Also, the mythbuntu-desktop and Mythbuntu-Control-Centre packages are now discontinued and won't be available from the Ubuntu repositories anymore. However, users will still be able to install the MythTV software and configure it as they see fit.

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Re:Or just use MythTV

[JBMcB]

I ran Mythbuntu for a few years. It was pretty friggin' sweet:

1. Automatic commercial skipping - worked *amazingly* well
2. Web access for scheduling and watching shows - it would transcode on the fly to mp4 and you could watch on your phone/tablet/whatever
3. A nice 10 foot interface for emulators, music, etc...
4. Plugins for all kinds of cool stuff - integrated Skype calling (a popup would appear on TV showing you caller ID, hit a button and TV pauses so you can answer) ZoneMinder, burning DVD's of TV shows with a few keypresses (used this for my friends pretty regularly)

Never had too many problems with installation/maintenance. Had some difficulty getting an old ATI RF remote set up, but it was mostly configuration, once set up it worked flawlessly.

Some guy on the forums had a crazy setup with something like 8 CableCard tuners and a few TB of disk space in a monster server in his basement, with thin clients acting as front-ends to the TVs in his house. Had it wired into a multizone sound system, controlled the whole thing through a web page on his tablet, or phone, or whatever. Pretty slick.