Last November we had looked at Mythbuntu 7.10 and found it to be an excellent MythTV distribution. With its LiveCD MythTV front-end capabilities and intuitive Mythbuntu Control Center, this distribution is far more than just a re-branded edition of Ubuntu with a couple MythTV packages. Being released in tandem with Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" next month will be Mythbuntu 8.04 and today we are taking an early look at this spring refresh using the recently released beta.

Mythbuntu 8.04 is made available for i386 and x86_64 architectures with both LiveCD and alternate install media. One of the new additions to Mythbuntu 8.04 is diskless support and it can be setup by using the Mythbuntu Control Center and installing mythbuntu-diskless-server on the Ubuntu server. This diskless support allows Mythbuntu clients to be booted on a read-only compressed file-system provided by the Mythbuntu (or Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) server over the network and writes to the disk are done to an NFS share using a writeable overlay.

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