Entertainer aims to be a simple and easy-to-use media center solution for the Gnome and XFce desktop environments. Today the project reached its first major milestone with the release of version 0.1. The code base is still rather crude and some functionality is yet to be implemented. Check it out and see what you think!

There are a number of ways you can participate in the project. Download the software and try it out. If you find bugs or have suggestions/comments you can submit them to the developers at Launchpad where the project is hosted. You can also join…

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Josh Stewart loves MythTV — so much so that he is building his own front-end app for it as a drop-in replacement for MythTV’s default. The replacement is called Gloss, and although it isn’t ready for prime time yet (no pun intended), its OpenGL effects and GStreamer bindings show plenty of promise.

Gloss is almost exclusively a one-developer project for right now, but Stewart hopes that will change. "Anyone with good general Python skills can help. A general understanding (or better) in GTK/GObject would go a long way to…

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DRM giveth, and taketh away. That’s the message from DirecTV, which in bowing to Hollywood, has now made its DVR customer’s experience lamer. And best of all, this new use of DRM has nothing to do with piracy and everything to do with making money.

The move is another indication of Big Content's shortsightedness when it comes to competing with piracy. Like it or not, they still have to compete with free. DVRs are great for that, because they save content in a format that's…

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