As far as Home Theatre PC (HTPC) software goes, there are not a huge number of players in the software only market. Of course every Digital Tuner card comes with some flavour of Windows software, but that isnt all that usefull if you want to run a true HTPC network at home.

There are some fantastic *nix variants available, most around the same core.
Knoppmyth
Mythbuntu
MythDora 

These are all of course built around the ever popular MythTV, however are all in LiveCD versions so that there is little to actually setup or compile. ( This is a very good thing as MythTV can be difficult at best to setup)

But now there is another player on the scene, has the playing field changed?

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