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Top five Linux distros part 4 - XBMC

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The Sweet Stuff: Software

Thursday November 4, 2010

XBMC is the best Linux distro for media

. It lets you connect with other computers and NAS drives in your home to stream movies, music and pictures. You can also play video from discs or straight from your set top PC's hard drive. Ideal for living room applications, it bests MythTV in our opinion.

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Download XBMC

- XBMC is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux as a player.

- Available in 30 languages.

- It can be installed on a USB drive, a CD, a DVD or on a computer.

- XBMC can run all of your media.

- Load up pictures and videos.

- Watch movies.

- Get the weather for multiple areas.

- Give XBMC the look you want.

- Configure all the settings.

- Connect it to your network so it can pull in a variety of media sources.

- Change the look with a new skin.

- It's fast and lean and does an amazing job of managing and displaying media.

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