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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 24 2019, @03:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-play-the-file-already dept.

The project is detailed on github for those who might be interested.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 25 2019, @04:08AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 25 2019, @04:08AM (#924393)

    It is an operating system (Linux distribution) intended for installation on SD cards. The tagline even says "Just enough OS for Kodi".

            LibreELEC is a lightweight ‘Just enough OS’ Linux distribution purpose-built for Kodi on current and popular mediacentre hardware.

    Yep. You were right and I was wrong [distrowatch.com].

    I played with LibreELEC a bit a while back, and while I did use a LibreELEC ISO, it wasn't clear to me that it was a distinct distribution.

    Had I found that it met my needs (that's not a knock on LibreElec, I just didn't like it all that much), I likely would have found that out when I attempted to install it on my preferred distribution.

    Mea culpa.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Monday November 25 2019, @04:21AM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday November 25 2019, @04:21AM (#924397) Journal

    IMO: It's best for people who already like to use Kodi, particularly with addons. I put LibreELEC on 2GB RPi4s hooked up to TVs, which can be controlled with the TV's remote using HDMI CEC, and use a 4GB RPi4 with Raspbian for desktop stuff.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 25 2019, @09:28PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 25 2019, @09:28PM (#924644)

      I looked at Kodi and by default it seemed to want to automatically connect to various servers without asking me, which I didn't like. Other than that, I couldn't see anything much useful to me that VLC couldn't provide. I certainly didn't need it to download media. I can use a web browser and / or a file transfer client for that.