As I visited the LinuxMCE home page, the webmaster said their server got flooded. The mainly reason is the massive traffics that sent to the LinuxMCE when a Digg’s user wrote about it has take the site down, as shown in the picture above. In other words, it means Digg’s readers is that massive and everyone is fascinated about the LinuxMCE 1.0 release. Moreover, there have been a spike and as a consequence, exceeding the available bandwidth of LinuxMCE’s server. Great news for them as they have just launched in one (1) week time.

LinuxMCE is an open-source feature-rich Ubuntu add-on that offer ten (10) beautiful desktop-like user interface (UI). My first impression is that it’s on par, if not better than the Microsoft Vista UI. It was founded with the aim to compete with the Windows XP Media Center Edition (Windows MCE), a Windows version that designed for the use in media and entertainment areas. LinuxMCE offered three different types of UI, as being discussed in this page, is a complete, stable, easy to use media solution that come with personal video recorder (PVR) and distributed media. I believed it has secured some sort of partnership with MythTV, an organization that focused on the PVR project of Linux versions.

At this moment, I’m still not sure how many of the Ubuntu users have downloaded this LinuxMCE product, but it seems that the huge groups of Linux users are closely watching the progress of this media edition. More than 10,000 readers have accessed to the LinuxMCE Screenshots page since it first prepared on the Web on 14th this month.

Kudos to the software development team of LinuxMCE.

Source: http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Image:MainMenuUI2M.jpg

Source: http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Image:MainMenuUI2B.jpg