XBMC has definetely got reasons to get popular these days.XBMC (Formely Known as Xbox Media Center) is basically a free and open source cross platform media centre to suit all your media needs. It is written in C and using some python. Comes with a large codec support so that you can play all your media files with ease. It outperforms the default media center.

The developers behind the XBMC project have released a new version of the popular open source media player. It comes with an impressive new user interface theme.

The XBMC project has released version 9.04 of the popular open source media center application. Ars takes the new version for a test ride to see how it compares to Boxee.

XBMC (“XBMC Media Center“) has been updated to version 9.04, codename Babylon, available now for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Apple TV, the classic Xbox, and bootable CDs or USB drives.

What once started as an mediacenter project for hacked Xboxes is now grown into one of the best mediacenter applications: XBMC. XBMC is now upgraded to version 9.11.

XBMC is an award winning free and open source software for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and XBox. Not so familiar with this popular application, here is a quick preview on what all XBMC Media Center can do for you.

Linux has no shortage of audio and video players, but if you want to devote you whole system to multimedia use, you need the Xbox Media Center (XBMC).

XBMC is getting ported to GNU/Linux. A few developers of Team-XBMC have begun the porting of XBMC to GNU/Linux using OpenGL and the SDL toolkit. In this effort, they are recruiting developers. XBMC is, by far, one of the finest projects to come out of the free software community; and to think it is homebrew.

You won't find a better media center than the open-source XBMC, but most people don't have the space or desire to plug a noisy PC into their TV. Instead, I converted a cheap nettop into a standalone XBMC set-top box. Here's how.