4 years ago I built a HTPC using Fedora and the experience was miserable, I had given up on a linux HTPC and moved to Windows and was relatively happy until my S.M.A.R.T. drive reported impending doom. I had to save my data and rebuilt my server, which made me want to revisit RAID 1 (mirroring) and Linux. From my experience, linux was going to be an uphill battle so I picked a path of least resistance with Mythbuntu (http://www.mythbuntu.org/) and I was very pleasantly surprised. I have a 3ware raid controller which is very easily supported across all linux platforms (3ware 8006) with a ASUS M2N-E motherboard with a nvidia graphics card (Gigabyte 8400GS 512MB GV) . I recommend a fanless graphics card.
I installed Mythbuntu and my mce remote and everything worked like a charm out of the box, AMAZING! I had to turn off the display blanking and uninstall the xscreensaver but that was relatively easy. Just add the following lines to your xorg.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "blank time" "0"
Option "standby time" "0"
Option "suspend time" "0"
Option "off time" "0"
EndSection
I also installed Miro, Subsonic, and qbittorrent. Miro for mobile video streaming, Subsonic for mobile audio, and qbittorrent for rss torrent downloads.
I dont use Mythtv instead I use boxee which I launch from mythtv via the following addition to the mythtv menu
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu/mainmenu.xml
After:
<mythmenu name="MAIN">
Put:
<button>
<type>MENU_BOXEE</type>
<text>Boxee</text>
<action>EXEC /opt/boxee/run-boxee-desktop</action>
</button>
On day two I am very pleased with the progress of Mythbuntu as Boxee box.
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