LibreELEC (short for Libre Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is a non-profit fork of
OpenELEC as an open source
software appliance
A software appliance is a software application combined with just enough operating system (JeOS) to run optimally on industry-standard hardware (typically a server) or in a virtual machine. It is a software distribution or firmware that impleme ...
, a
Linux
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-based
Just enough operating system
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for the
Kodi
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media player. This fork of OpenELEC announced in March 2016 as a split from the OpenELEC team after "creative differences", taking most of its active developers at the time to join the new LibreELEC project.
This is a conservative fork of the OpenELEC project with a stronger focus on pre-release testing and post-release change management.
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History
Because of the end of Python 2
The programming language Python was conceived in the late 1980s, and its implementation was started in December 1989 by Guido van Rossum at CWI in the Netherlands as a successor to ABC capable of exception handling and interfacing with the ...
support in 2020, LibreElec version 10 with Kodi 19 switches to ''Python 3''. Therefore, addons created for prior versions with ''python 2'' need to be updated by developers for Kodi 19 because python code is not backward compatible
Backward compatibility (sometimes known as backwards compatibility) is a property of an operating system, product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system, especially i ...
.
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