OpenELEC 4.2 Works To Improve The Linux HTPC/Multimedia Experience

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenELEC 4.2 Works To Improve The Linux HTPC/Multimedia Experience

A new release of OpenELEC is out for the Linux distribution designed around XBMC (now known as Kodi) for carrying out multimedia tasks with an easy-to-setup operating system...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc5Nzk

[runrun]

Everything about openelec makes me moist

[caligula]

Um, is it compiled with llvm? Kind of don't see the point in distributing a compiler with a htpc distro. How about lto kernel? Are there any plans? What about a minimal rpi build with only drivers for sd and the builtin ethernet? The boot time is quite slow.

[sraue]

Um, is it compiled with llvm? Kind of don't see the point in distributing a compiler with a htpc distro.

LLVM is used with Mesa, there is no compiler installed in the build

How about lto kernel? Are there any plans? What about a minimal rpi build with only drivers for sd and the builtin ethernet? The boot time is quite slow.

the boottime is ~ 20 sec on RPi which is not very slow for such a slow device :-) drivers are loaded only if the hardware is connected, other then that OpenELEC is already very minimal (~100MB on RPi), not needed services like samba, ssh, avahi, wlan, bluetooth etc... can be disabled.

[caligula]

LLVM is used with Mesa, there is no compiler installed in the build



the boottime is ~ 20 sec on RPi which is not very slow for such a slow device :-) drivers are loaded only if the hardware is connected, other then that OpenELEC is already very minimal (~100MB on RPi), not needed services like samba, ssh, avahi, wlan, bluetooth etc... can be disabled.

Not sure how you got that number. I tried the latest stock openelec for rpi before this release and had overclocked to 900 MHz. The card was class 10 40 MB/s from sandisk. Took closer to 40 seconds to boot. From plugging transformer to wall to the xbmc startup sound.