Hello.
I am the lead developer of LinuxMCE.
I would like to clarify some misconceptions in this thread.
We released the 0710 release in May of 2008, since this time, we shifted completely to a community based development model, now that the original parent company has allowed us to completely develop the system on our own. We have a beta release of the next release available, and we recommend installing this, over the previous stable release, due to a large amount of bugfixes and feature additions.
It is worth noting that yes, this system is much more complex than a media center. It is a smart home platform. If all you want is a single PC to play media, LinuxMCE is not for you. If you want a computer system to handle virtually all your media, lighting, climate control, security system, and telephony needs, there is nothing else that even comes close, especially since you would spend close to a million USD to get all the functionality that we provide with the system out of the box to handle ALL of these facilities.
Yes, everything you see in the demo videos is real, yes, it works, but it does take a significant investment in planning and implementation time, it has to, we do a lot.
-Thom
