Acer Revo+XBMC+Remote Control = Warm Squishy Goodness

The Acer Revo was just made for XBMC, it is small, compact easily hidden and can play HD content with ease. Assuming you already are running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx it dosen't take much to get XBMC up and running.

Drop to a terminal Applications->Accesories->Terminal (in Gnome)

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

(in case you haven't done it already)

sudo apt-get install libvdpau1

(in case you haven't done it already)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone

sudo apt-get update

If you want to play DVD's

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

If you have an IR remote...

sudo apt-get install gnome-lirc-properties

I really can't tell you much about configuring it because I bought this cheap one from amazon.com, went to System->Preferences->Infrared Remote Control and let it autodetect and it 'just worked' here is a link in case you are interested...

http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-USB-Remote-Control-Mouse/dp/B001M56DI0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1279606854&sr=8-2