LibreELEC 12.0

Nate Drake is impressed with the freedom that the latest version of LibreELEC (code name Omega) offers to cosy up to Kodi.

Nate Drake

DEVELOPER LibreELEC Team WEB libreelec.tv LICENCE GPL 2.0 LibreELEC has been in active development since 2016, when a number of OpenELEC programmers decided to fork the project. According to the main website, its purpose is to provide “just enough operating system” to run the Kodi media player, which is reflected in the fact that it runs happily on single-board computers such as the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5. This said, the project wiki advises against trying to run LibreELEC on legacy hardware, as “just enough” doesn’t always stretch to older device drivers. There’s no bootable ISO but interested parties can download a disk image to write to a bootable USB. Although LibreELEC isn’t really designed to be run via a hypervisor, there’s a virtual machine (OVA) image available for testing purposes,…

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