My experience with MythTV is that it's a learning process. The reason I have experience with a few distributions is that I found bugs with each MythTV "distro." Some were bugs with the way the distribution handled hardware, the other bugs were with software like MythWeather. Certain distributions work better "out of the box" with particular hardware which makes the whole experience a little easier. Now if you don't mind recompiling the kernel or tracking down particular modules you're probably going to want to have the 'scratch experience' (i.e. Gentoo) which will also probably give you better performance.<br>
<br>As far as I know Linux Media Centre Edition is suppose to be the glue that binds things like your X10 with servers like MythTV. I'm not sure about its ability to handle NAS and other servers, my understanding is "Don't look to LMCE as a MythTV replacement, but as something to augment MythTV and help control convergence. I don't know of any other convergence projects, but not doubt someone has written something.<br>