XBMC for Linux
XBMC for Linux is currently primarily developed for Ubuntu Linux and XBMC's developers own XBMC Live (Live CD Linux distribution). Third-party packages for most other Linux distributions are however available, and it is also possible to compile XBMC Media Center from scratch for any Linux distribution.
This is currently the only version to support GPU hardware accelerated video decoding. Development version of XBMC for Linux is available at Launchpad as PPA (Personal Package Archive) for the standard Ubuntu Desktop 8.04, 8.10, and 9.04 versions.