Because this wasn't clear to me immediately: This is a Linux distribution with Kodi preinstalled that grew out of the Raspbmc project.<p>Link to their GitHub repo: <a href="https://github.com/samnazarko/osmc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/samnazarko/osmc</a>
This is from their wiki site for more clarification<p>Kodi is a media center application and OSMC is the operating system that runs Kodi and brings it to your device. OSMC is not a fork of Kodi but rather a Linux distribution that ships Kodi as the main application. This is a similar concept to Kodi running on top of Windows or Android.<p>OSMC is based on Debian Jessie (a flavour of GNU/Linux) and has been heavily optimised to provide the best TV experience possible.
The information available on the website and github is pretty sparse. Will it play blu-ray iso's or folders? Support for DTS-MA? TV tuner support documentation just says "most work", which really doesn't answer the question at all. In general the documentation just says it will do anything you want it to, without going into any specifics.<p>Do I have to go back through the docs on Kodi and assume this will do everything Kodi will?
I've been using Raspbmc and OSMC (which spawned from Raspbmc) on both RP1 and RP2 and they've both been great. While OSMC is only on RC2, it's fairly solid and RC3 should be coming any day. As well as standard addons for Kodi, it has an App Store that will ultimately let you install things like torrent clients and the like with ease. Their default skin needs a little work but it's nice and fast.<p>Great job Sam and the team.