I hadn't heard of OpenELEC but here is what I found.
Do you want to run Kodi on a hardware-limited
platform such as for example, a Raspberry Pi?
When it comes to operating systems, you have
three major options: LibreELEC, OpenELEC or OSMC.
All of these operating systems were created
specifically to run on limited hardware. Most
will only run on a handful of platforms and all
include some form of Kodi as a built-in feature.
So I will try this first... the least I have to
screw with it the better! Thanks!
At 12:15 PM 7/29/2018, you wrote:
Either look like they'd be ok (both have or are
lightweight desktop experiences), to me it would
depend on where you think you'll be more
comfortable with getting help with questions.
OpenELEC is another distribution (I'd heard of
it before, but that doesn't matter too much as
there's so many) but it's also light weight and
probably would also work well on an older
machine. You'd use it instead of another
distribution, or try it from a USB key - I'd say
if it provides the device support already
integrated and you don't want to tinker to get
it to work on another distro then it's easiest
to use it. OpenELEC is focused on being a media
centre device so may not have all the features
or apps of a full distribution built in, but should excel as a media device.
On 2018-07-29 12:00 PM, Winterlight wrote:
Cool..thanks! I was thinking of Elementary
OS... or maybe Mint64 ...what do you think? I
have a SiliconDust tuner that I would like to
use. It does support Kodi with open Elec for
Linux but I don't know what that is... a distribution or an app.
At 11:24 AM 7/29/2018, you wrote:
Short answer is yes it looks like the XOrg
radeon driver
(https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Radeon/) has
full support for the X1400 graphics card, out
of the box on most distributions. I'd be
tempted to run something like Xubuntu or
Lubuntu on it as both use a lighter-weight
desktop (Xfce or LXQt) than KDE or Gnome that
are in the standard distributions. They're
both still Debian/Ubuntu based so if you're
not familiar with Linux you can get help on it
relatively easily by searching as most Ubuntu-based solutions will work.
On 2018-07-29 10:13 AM, Winterlight wrote:
I own a old T60 Thinkpad circa 2007 that
still works well. I bought it on Ebay used
for not much money a long time ago. The only
upgrade I did was to install an old small SSD
in it.ÃÂ The T60 has a chipset that only
handles 3GB of RAM because it's native OS is
XP. In it's day it was considered high end. A
large wide screen, 2.2 dual core with ATI Mobility Radeon X1400.
>> >
à The ATI video is now a problem. Theà ATI
video card creates a problem when it comes to
OS upgrades because there is absolutely no
drivers for it in Win7 and above. All you can
get is generic MS video card driver which
kills a lot of the usefulness of the laptop.
If it wasn't for the video card I could
update the OS and find a use for it.Ã I am
thinking about wiping the drive and
installing some flavor of Linux...would Linux
have better support for the ATI card ?
