Earlier today, November 5, 2016, the team behind the Mythbuntu GNU/Linux distribution has sadly announced that the project has been discontinued effective immediately and no new releases will be made.

Mythbuntu was an operating system based on the widely-used Ubuntu Linux distro and built around the MythTV free and open source digital video recorder (DVR) project. It was an official Ubuntu flavor and used Xfce4 as the default desktop environment. The first release of the OS was back when Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) was announced, and the last one was Mythbuntu 16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus).

"Mythbuntu as a separate distribution will cease to exist. We will take the necessary steps to pull Mythbuntu specific packages from the repositories unless someone steps up to take these packages over," said Thomas Mashos in the announcement. "MythTV packages in the official repositories and the Mythbuntu PPA will continue to be available and updated at their current rate."

Users are recommended to install Xubuntu and add the Mythbuntu Repos

From this point on, no new releases of the Mythbuntu Linux operating system will be created, which means that there will be no new ISO images anymore. Also, the mythbuntu-desktop and Mythbuntu-Control-Centre packages are now discontinued and won't be available from the Ubuntu repositories anymore. However, users will still be able to install the MythTV software and configure it as they see fit.

The Mythbuntu team recommends users who want to use "Mythbuntu" to install the latest release of the Xubuntu Linux operating system and then add the Mythbuntu PPA (Personal Package Archive), which will continue to provide the latest MythTV releases and other related packages. If anyone wants to take over the Mythbuntu project, he or she is free to do so, just contact the old team through the official website.