OpenELEC (short for Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is a Linux distribution designed for home theater PCs.[2] OpenELEC pre‐configures the XBMC as a media player software appliance.[3][4]
OpenELEC applies the "just enough operating system" principle. It is designed to consume relatively few resources and to boot quickly from flash memory.[5][6][7][8][9][10] An OpenELEC disc image for the Raspberry Pi is also available.[11][12]
Overview and description
OpenELEC provides a complete media center software suite that comes with a pre-configured version of XBMC and third-party addons with retro video game console emulators and PVR plugins. OpenELEC is an extremely small and very fast booting Linux based distribution, primarily designed to be booted from flash memory card such as CompactFlash or a solid-state drive, similar to that of the XBMCbuntu (formerly XBMC Live) distribution but specifically targeted to a minimum set-top box hardware setup based on an ARM SoC's or Intel x86 processor and graphics.[13][14][15][16][9][10]
History
The OpenELEC team released the second Release Candidate for OpenELEC 3.0 on 26 January 2013. The team has updated XBMC to latest XBMC Frodo and fixed some issues found in their first Release Candidate and further updated some important parts of the operating system to fix issues and add additional drivers.[17] [18]
On 5 February 2013, OpenELEC announced their new partnership with ARCTIC - a company based in Switzerland best known for their cooling solutions. Together, they developed a fully passive cooled Entertainment system - the MC001 media centre, equipped with their latest XBMC 12 (OpenELEC 3.0) platform. OpenELEC and ARCTIC are planning on their next release to provide a more dedicated builds for the ARCTIC MC001 systems.[19][20][21][22][23]
Pulse-Eight Limited sells both custom and off the shelf hardware solutions primarily designed for XBMC, such as remote controls, HTPC systems and accessories, including a custom HTPC PVR set-top-box pre-installed with XBMC that they call "PulseBox"[24] Pulse-Eight also offers free performance tuned embedded versions of XBMC that they call "Pulse" which is based on OpenELEC and a custom PVR-build of XBMC that is meant to run on your dedicated HTPC system.[25]
Xtreamer Ultra and Xtreamer Ultra 2, manufactured by the South Korean company Unicorn Information Systems, are nettops based on Nvidia graphics and Intel Atom processors which comes with OpenELEC and XBMC software pre-installed. The first-generation Xtreamer Ultra uses Nvidia Ion chipset with a 1.80 GHz Dual-Core Intel Atom D525 CPU, while the Xtreamer Ultra 2 uses discrete GeForce GT 520M graphics with a 2.13 GHz Dual-Core Intel Atom D2700 CPU.[26][27]
Release history
| Version |
Release date |
XBMC version used |
Supported architecture |
| 1.0 |
20 October 2011 |
10.1 (Dharma) |
x86 |
| 2.0 |
18 October 2012 |
11.0 (Eden) |
x86, x64 |
| 3.0 |
24 March 2013 |
12.1 (Frodo) |
x86, x64, ARM |
| 3.2 |
13 September 2013 |
12.2 (Frodo) |
x86, x64, ARM |
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