I could swear that a new XBMC thread was created at some point, but maybe not.

Anyway, I finally got my HTPC up and running like I want. Zero internal storage, booting via PXE and root filesystem on iSCSI. (I tried NFS root, but it seemed kinda flaky, and I already had an OpenFiler server up and running, so adding an iSCSI target was trivial.)

Anyway, I decided to install XBMC instead of Boxee this time, and I'm reasonably pleased with it. There are some issues with the library. It's clearly more oriented towards filesystem navigation, and the library acts more like a virtual filesystem than it ought to. Boxee is definitely more polished on this front. Ignoring that, the UI (of the default skin, anyway) seems no less polished than Boxee's.

This is mostly just initial reaction, though. I haven't really played with it a lot yet.