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 for the
Kodi
Kodi may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* KODI, a radio station in Cody, Wyoming, USA
* Kodi (film), ''Kodi'' (film), India, 2016
* Kodi, a dog in the 2004 film ''Balto III: Wings of Change''
Other uses
* Kodi (software), an open sour ...
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 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
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.
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{{Home theater PC (application software)
ARM operating systems
Embedded Linux distributions
Free media players
Linux distributions used in appliances
Linux-based devices
Linux distributions
Just enough operating systems