A good article by Tom Lynema about building a home media center using linux. In this article Tom describes how he managed to setup a wireless home media center based on Linux without changing his home configuration. He used Linux Ubuntu distribution for that.

Like a lot of people nowadays, I have a growing collection of digital media. My digital media is stored on a home Linux server. Most of the digital media players available today do not support protocols to connect to a Linux server, which make them unsuitable for my use. I realized the best way to connect my digital media library with my home theatre was to build my own Linux home media center (LHMC).


The full article is here: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/01/04/1855257