Aeon is a skin for XBMC, designed to "create an attractive, sophisticated and above all personal environment for organising and enjoying media".
It was created by Duncan Harris (alias djh_) in 2007, and has not stopped evolving since then.

The current stable version is called Stark, and refers to version 0.91. It was released on April 4, 2009.

Auriga is the next scheduled version, and it refers to version 1.0. There are currently no scheduled date for its final release. It was last updated in July 2009.

Popular mods

Recently, many mods

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 appeared, all based, at some level, on the original Aeon skin.
Those mods often aggregate a lot of smaller modifications posted by individual users in XBMC forums in easy to install packages.

The most popular mods packages are:

• ShowMix, based on Auriga, by andyblac
• Hitched, originally by Hitcher (stopped development); development picked up by EKIM232
• Aeon65 (previously Phil65), based on Hitched, by temmi2000

Popular mods compared

Skin	Media Flags							Movies Views								TV Shows Views
	Rating	Studio	Video Codec	Video Aspect Ratio	Video Resolution	Audio Codec	Audio Channels	List	Wall	Showcase	Panel	Multiwall	Multiplex	Old Multiplex	Cover View (Anoobie 2)	List	Wall	Showcase	Panel	Multiwall	Multiplex	Old Multiplex
Stark		Partial	1		1	1	No	Multi, Single	Default, Max	Flow2, Flat	Flow, Flat				No	Multi, Single	Default, Max	Flow2, Flat	Flow, Flat
Auriga		Partial	1				No	Slim, Full	Default, Max	Flow2, Flat			Plot, Thumbshow, Fanart		No	Full	Default, Max	Flow, Flat			Fanart2
ShowMix							Yes	Slim2, Full, Low3	Default, Max				Standard, Fullscreen; Plot, Thumbshow, Fanart, Poster, Trailer		No	Slim2, Full, Low3	Default, Max				Standard, Fullscreen; Plot, Thumbshow, Fanart, Poster, Episode Preview
Hitched							Yes	Slim, Full, Low3, Clear	Default, Max; Horizontal, Vertical	Flow2, Flat; Plot2, Thumbshow, Fanart, Trailer, Big Trailer, Poster			Plot, Thumbshow, Fanart, Trailer, Big Trailer, Poster	Plot, Thumbshow, Fanart, Trailer, Big Trailer, Poster	No	Slim, Full2, Low3, Clear	Default, Max; Horizontal, Vertical				Fanart	Fanart
Aeon65							Yes	Slim, Full, Low3, Clear	Default, Max; Horizontal, Vertical	Flow, Flat; Plot, Thumbshow, Fanart, Trailer, Big Trailer, Poster			Plot2, Thumbshow, Fanart, Trailer, Big Trailer, Poster	Plot, Thumbshow, Fanart, Trailer, Big Trailer, Poster	Yes	Slim, Full2, Low3, Clear	Default, Max; Horizontal, Vertical				Fanart	Fanart
Skin	Rating	Studio	Video Codec	Video Aspect Ratio	Video Resolution	Audio Codec	Audio Channels	List	Wall	Showcase	Panel	Multiwall	Multiplex	Old Multiplex	Cover View (Anoobie 2)	List	Wall	Showcase	Panel	Multiwall	Multiplex	Old Multiplex
	Media Flags							Movies Views								TV Shows Views

Note 1: Broken in latest XBMC (from SVN).

Note 2: This is the default view.

Note 3: Low List (List View Rev2) was developed by Leeuw; http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=52422