OK it really doesn't really but it has its problems. This video discusses some of them and some possible solutions;

From BoingBoing

Thanks to some perseverance and asking the right questions, SJSU professors are now prohibited from barring students from posting their code solutions online, as well as penalizing their students for doing so. A win for students, programmers, and copyfighters nationwide! ...

For the last year or so my dedicated media box has been running MediaPortal on Windows. It's been a good little setup all in all, but using Windows always bugs me.

In the last week the harddisk on the box popped and I had to replace it so I thought I'd give MythTV and Mythbuntu a shot.

First of all I'd like to say that Mythbuntu 8.10 is a great little package and it does vastly simplify the process of setting up MythTV.