OpenELEC 5.0

After my original RaspberryPi which was used for a media centre running OpenELEC died, I&#x27;ve gotten a new Pi and installed Raspbmc on it. Although it did what it said on the box, and I am appreciative for the work done by that team, going back to OpenELEC today was particularly nice. Usually I like to customize my linux machines, but with media centres, I&#x27;m more than happy to take something pretty much stock, and just use it.<p>I downloaded the 5.0 image (which I didn&#x27;t realise was only just released), dd&#x27;ed it to my SD card, booted the pi, and then ran the first run wizard (pretty much clicking next on everything except the dhcp config).<p>Quick, easy, and enjoyable. Thanks to everyone for all your hard work making this distro.

I can warmly recommend the Gigabyte Brix GB-BXBT-2807 to anyone looking for a completely fanless, quick, and fully supported device. As of OpenELEC 5.0 wireless and bluetooth has been working out of the box. They&#x27;re on the expensive side of the spectrum, but very quick and neat little boxes.

This is a very confusing name. My first thought was that this is a opensource election software.

Since their initial Chromecast support, Plex has won out in my home thanks to its better metadata support and sharing libraries through their website.<p>Does anyone with OpenELEC&#x2F;Kodi experience if this is still the case? Should I switch?

I just bought the cubox to try this out on (Before that I was using i3 intel NUCs, so my cost will go from around 400$ per node to 100$ per node). I cannot even begin to evangelize how awesome this project is. You can keep all your source content in a central place with very little system requirements and do all the unpacking on a tiny arm&#x2F;intel system. Interface is fantastic, and paired with yaste its the best media center experience that exists today.

I&#x27;ve used it on an Intel Celeron machine and it was absolutely wonderful, apart from the fact that the machine had the Intel 24p bug.<p>I&#x27;ve recently switched to a Zotac PI320 which is very nice as well, but sadly due to some UEFI nonsense it can&#x27;t boot OpenElec :( This is a shame as it&#x27;s easily the simplest way to get a Kodi installation up and running (and automatically updated!).

Nice, this release switches from OpenSSL to LibreSSL. Also kernel 3.6.17, with the new getrandom(2) syscall. Good crypto improvements.<p>One question I have is how LibreSSL allows them to drop both OpenSSL and GnuTLS -- why did they previously require both?

Very grateful for the OpenELEC distribution. Worked great on my RPi and now seriously considering to replace Fedora on my HTPC NUC with it, as well.<p>If any of the devs read this, THANKS a bunch and happy new year!

For potential XBMC users, check out xbmcbuntu. gives you a little more freedom to install &#x2F; do whatever you want in comparison to OpenELEC.