OpenELEC 7.0 Linux Distribution Now Available For PC and Raspberry Pi (betanews.com) 28
Readers BrianFagioli writes: Some operating systems are targeted at a single use to minimize the overhead and maximize the power of the hardware. One such focused OS is OpenELEC. This Linux distribution is designed to serve as a media center -- nothing more, nothing less. Today, the popular distro reaches stable version 7.0. There are images for both x86 and Raspberry Pi 2 and 3, meaning there is a very good chance you own compatible hardware. OpenELEC 7.0 release contain a Kodi major version bump. If you are updating from OpenELEC 6.0 or earlier we strongly recommend you perform a full backup before performing a manual update. If you experience issues please perform a soft-reset to clear OpenELEC and Kodi settings. "The OpenELEC 7.0 (internal version 7.0.0) release has been published. Users running OpenELEC 6.95.1 or later with auto-update enabled will be prompted on-screen to reboot and apply the update once it has been downloaded and enabled in some hours. Users running older OpenELEC releases or with auto-update disabled will need to manually update," says Stephan Raue, maintainer, OpenELEC Mediacenter Project.
really?! (Score:1)
How popular is it after "the whole band exept the drummer, who was an ass", left and forked LibreElec (with will, in a few days, release v8.0 with Kodi 17)?!?!
LibreElec (Score:2)
Re:LibreElec (Score:4, Insightful)
Fork based on creative differences based on what I've seen in the forums. LibreELEC are on a more up to date release based on the underlying Kodi code.
I saw some people complain about OpenELEC's releases being too slow, but personally it was really giving me the s***ts updating as often as it was so I've disabled updating all together. I can't see any major reason to jump between minor versions all the time as I wasn't missing anything feature wise. YMMV
Re:LibreElec (Score:5, Insightful)
LibreElec is the well supported fork that left OpenElec because the brand owner was an asshat.
You know, typical open source solution to the problem of the brand being owned by an idiot or being bought by Evil Corp.
Netscape -> Mozilla -> FireFox
MySQL -> MariaDB
OpenOffice -> LibreOffice
Cyanogenmod -> Lineage OS
I'm sure there are PLENTY others
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FreeBSD -> DragonFlyBSD.
Dillon started DragonFly in the belief that the methods and techniques being adopted for threading and symmetric multiprocessing in FreeBSD 5 would lead to poor system performance and cause maintenance difficulties. He sought to correct these suspected problems within the FreeBSD project. Due to ongoing conflicts with other FreeBSD developers over the implementation of his ideas, his ability to directly change the FreeBSD codebase was eventually revoked. Despite this, the DragonFly BSD and FreeBSD projects still work together contributing bug fixes, driver updates, and other system improvements to each other.
FreeBSD forks (Score:2)
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ouch, quite a bit of bullshit here.
mozilla -> firefox is quite the same, just some idea of "lets make a lean browser" (you may laugh about this today)
mysql -> mariadb are a bit different usecases. And mariadb is from the mysql founder.
cyanogenmod to lineage is just a renaming (because of abandoned cyanogen (without mod) OS).
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https://libreelec.tv/2016/03/lets-rock-this-gig/
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Linux Distribution? (Score:2)
It's a media center appliance that uses the Linux kernel and a few user space bits and bobs to start up Kodi (XBMC). Last I checked it was non-trivial to install your own stuff and generally hack about without rebuilding the lot from source... so sure it's a "linux distribution," in that it distributes "Linux" but I find that term unhelpful.
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It's a media center appliance that uses the Linux kernel and a few user space bits and bobs to start up Kodi (XBMC). Last I checked it was non-trivial to install your own stuff and generally hack about without rebuilding the lot from source.
Last time I checked it was trivial to install Kodi to popular Linux distributions from packages, even if they use arm. OpenELEC simply provides a turnkey installation so that you don't have to do anything but burn an image to a SD card to get going. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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I tried OpenElec, or LibreElec, or something, on my Pi3. It was ok but the sd card is then read only so it's impossible to use it to do anything else at the same time. You're better off just installing Raspbian and kodi. I imagine the theory is "it just does one thing properly" but i've noticed no problems.
Tested on Raspberry Pi 1 Model B (Score:3)
For anyone curious about running this release on a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B, seems to be running great for me as a MythTV client.
MythTV backend/storage is a fixes/0.27 (version 52e124b) release on a Debian Wheezy (AMD64) system and using a HDHomeRun(HDHR3-US) as an Over-the-air(OTA) television source. Guide browsing, playback of recordings, and live TV were tested.
How long (Score:2)
does it take to boot?
Becoming very irritated with these "small" Linux distros that take a minute or more to boot. I want my 'media centre' to turn on more or less immediately, like the radio and the TV used to. And I want it to be properly off, as not even powered, when it's off. Like the radio and the TV used to also.
This is well within the capabilities of the hardware, it's more than powerful enough to bring up a fully-functional media centre in milliseconds, but only if you stop using Linux, and start us
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Voting machines (Score:2)
How is it possible that a Linux distribution with the name "OpenELEC" is not a distribution meant for operating voting machines?
The mighty downfall of Slashdot. (Score:3)
Really? Only a single link to a third party web site and no mention at all of the openelec web site?
This is what passes for front page quality now?
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True, but you can always give them a helping hand...
http://openelec.tv/ [openelec.tv]
https://libreelec.tv/ [libreelec.tv]
https://www.reddit.com/r/kodi/... [reddit.com]