Media Center Linux and is Tivo linux?

From: Ohmster (donteven_at_thinkaboutit.com)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:17:55 GMT

I have an HDTV in my living room and desperately want to build a media
computer for it. I see that Windows Media Center Edition 2005 is supposed to
do a good job at this, you get a TV Guide like Tivo so that you can use a
remote control, wireless keyboard, wireless mouse to point and click what you
want to record and it will do it for you, even does HDTV with a card the HDTV
Wonder and it is also a full, Internet computer as well so that I can view
all of my pictures, movie files, and songs on my home LAN, PC games would
also be awesome. This is what I really want but I long for the satisfaction
of a super stable linux OS instead.

Windows XP MCE is pretty polished and "works", is there any linux equivalent
to this. I want for it to be fairly simple so that my family can use and
enjoy it every day, don't really want to have to forever tweak under the hood
or have to be a nuclear scientist to use the system. Are there any linux
distros that can do this? And another question, is Tivo really linux? Tivo
seems a really good, stable, media OS but of course it is proprietary and not
only do you have to actually buy a Tivo unit to get the Tivo system, then you
have to pay for it every month and that really sucks. Has anyone ever gotten
a hold of a Tivo OS and installed it on a computer? The Windows XP MCE will
do all of this and I don't have to pay for the guide but linux would be so
much sweeter and better, is there any way to do this with linux and what
would you all recommend? I currently have a Red Hat 9 server/firewall/gateway
for my DSL connection to feed my home LAN so I am not a complete newbie with
linux. I really love my redhat server box, but it is no way a comfortable
media OS. Any comments or suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks guys. 

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email: ohmster at newsguy dot com
~Ohmster

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