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As noted on Lifehacker, the new beta version of open source media center application Plex offers support for Hulu. Plex is for Mac OS X users only, and is noted for its glitzy, skinnable interface. Like Boxee, which was recently forced to remove support for Hulu content, Plex is a fork of the XBMC Media Center project. Here, you can view screencasts showing how Plex and its galaxy of plug-ins work.

In a few recent posts, we've covered the Boxee open source media center, which has begun to get rave reviews from users, and attention in the mainstream press. Boxee is a mashup of a powerful media center application that can run and organize videos, photos and more on the Mac, AppleTV, (eventually Windows) and Linux, with social media sharing features thrown in. Many of the Boxee users that I run into have raved about its ability to let them watch Hulu videos on their big screen TVs, but that's coming to an end. In this blog post from Hulu, the company's CEO Jason Kilar makes clear that Hulu's content will no longer be available through Boxee. How did this come about and who's to blame?

The buzz has been building for Boxee lately, writes Chris Albrecht at GigaOm. Mainstream news outlets like The New York Times, BusinessWeek and NPR are getting hip to the little open source media center that could quite possibly change the way you experience TV. We've covered Boxee before, here,? here, and here. I agree that it's an extremely promising open source media center. Check out GigaOm's video interview with Boxee CEO and co-founder Avner Ronen.