building a Boxee Media Center

[cainemichael]

I am building a Boxee Media Center PC and was wondering if anyone had a suggestion as to which Distro would run best as a media center pc?

[gregwa]

I've always used Ubuntu 10.04 and had no problems.

[haveringcottage]

however if you want ultimate flexibility in terms of applications available, surely it has to be win7?

[maughanorama]

i personally am not a winblows fan (even with 7s gui and stuff)

i think its all down to prefence really, i dunno what you mean about applications though?

my boxee media server is sat under my tv, this also is a web server, ftp server, mail server, syncs all the household mobiles for pictures and stuff via bluetooth, file server.
i wouldnt want to even try to set all that up on winblows as i would need al sorts of other apps to run the services.(i.e mail server,iis,dunno about blue tooth sync.
as far as i can tell all the boxee apps work fine on my natty (ubu 11.04) had no real issues except he initial install, but that wasnt too taxing..

[amgenhammer]

I am building a Boxee Media Center PC and was wondering if anyone had a suggestion as to which Distro would run best as a media center pc?

Ubuntu 10.04LTS for sure. x86 version works the best. Even on a 64 bit build. About a gig of ram and a dual core for optimal results =)