Er is eindelijk weer eens een stabiele versie van het Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center uitgekomen. Deze Linux-distributie is gebaseerd op XBMC Media Center en kan een computer tot een volwaardige htpc omtoveren. OpenELEC is eenvoudig te installeren, onderhouden en gebruiken, en is verder klein en razendsnel. Naast de standaarddownload zijn er speciale versies voor AMD's Fusion- en Nvidia's ION-platform, Apple TV, Xtreamer Ultra en Raspberry Pi. De changelog voor deze versie laat de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen zien:
Whats new in OpenELEC 3.2?
Like OpenELEC 3.0, the 3.2 release is based upon XBMC Frodo (12.x) but “under the hood” it includes many notable changes:
- Many feature enhancements and bugfixes to XBMC Frodo; including a number of backports from Gotham and speed improvements for RaspberryPi users
- Linux kernel 3.10, bringing many new and updated drivers and improvements
- Mesa-9.2
- ALSA 1.0.27 (thanks to Anssi Hannula for various fixes and improvements)
- Updated graphic drivers from AMD, Intel and nVidia
- Updated and improved pi firmware (thanks to Dom Cobley)
- Updated drivers and driver firmware
- Updated XVBA, VDPAU and VAAPI libraries
- Intel VPP (Video Post Processing API) support by Timo Rothenpieler (thanks also to various Intel developers like Haihao Xiang)
- Support for many more remotes and keymaps
- Initial PPTP and OpenVPN support (via connman)
- Wireless tethering support (on WLAN cards that support it)
- Completely reworked networking
- Completely reworked bluetooth with support for more remotes
- Added support for bluetooth keyboards and file transfers
- Boot speed improvements for all platforms (particularly Raspberry pi)
- Many bugfixes and package updates
