Mythbuntu Linux Is No More, the Distribution Has Been Officially Discontinued | Linux Today

Mythbuntu Linux Is No More, the Distribution Has Been Officially Discontinued

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Marius Nestor
Nov 7, 2016

Mythbuntu was an operating system based on the widely-used Ubuntu Linux distro and built around the MythTV free and open source digital video recorder (DVR) project. It was an official Ubuntu flavor and used Xfce4 as default desktop environment. The first release of the OS was back when Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) was announced, and the last one was Mythbuntu 16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus). From this point on, it appears that no new releases of the Mythbuntu Linux operating system will be created, which means that there will be no new ISO images anymore. Also, the mythbuntu-desktop and Mythbuntu-Control-Centre packages are now discontinued and won’t be available from the Ubuntu repositories anymore. However, users will still be able to install the MythTV software and configure it as they see fit.

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Marius Nestor

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