You thought it would never happen?  Well, think again!

Today marks a historic day in Mythbuntu development. Over the last year we have been having discussions with several major cable companies in the United States regarding enabling CableCARD support for all Mythbuntu users. Late last year we reached an agreement with two of those major companies, Time Warner & Comcast. As excited as we were about this agreement, we unfortunately had to remain silent because of an NDA regarding the implementation. In our contract we agreed to develop a technical preview version of the CableCARD support to be released shortly before Mythbuntu 9.04 was to cut the gold media. This would allow users to test the implementation and report bugs while leaving approximately one month for engineers to resolve those reported issues.

Read the full article here.

Other than them labeling Time Warner Cable incorrectly as Time Warner, this is excellent news.  I'm not too excited about purchasing an ATI card, but I will live!

Update: Yeah, I think I was had, it looks like this was April fools.  Very nice for them not to put the date anywhere on that page.  NOT funny, I'm staying clear of Mythbuntu because of this.

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