The foundation refers to computing performance that is six times better on the average. The Raspberry Pi 2 (RPi2) comes equipped with a quad-core processor ( Figure 1) that runs at 900MHz and is significantly faster than first-generation Rasp Pis. In the beginning, overclocking came at the risk of voiding the warranty, but after receiving loads of feedback from the user community and performing a number of tests, the Raspberry Pi Foundation finally decided to sanction overclocking. Even so, they wanted users to realize the CPU's full potential, so they made it possible to overclock the Pi with software. However, the developers were not sure how the nano-computer would keep up day to day without a fan and heat sink, so they played it cautious and set the clock rate of the first-generation Pi at 700MHz. Adding just a bit more CPU power allows the Pi to do an even better job.īroadcom designed the CPU built into the first model of the Raspberry Pi to be used at clock rates up to 1GHz. In spite of its admittedly limited resources, the Pi nonetheless manages to do a credible job of handling such tasks. Supported platformsīeing a 100% free project, LibreELEC appears to supports a wide range of platforms, starting from generic 64-bit, AMD, Nvidia and Intel GPU HTPC systems and Amlogic HTPCs, and continuing with numerous ARM boards, including but not limited to Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 2, Raspberry Pi 3, Raspberry Pi Zero, Raspberry Pi Zero W, WeTek Core, WeTek Hub, WeTek Play, WeTek Play 2, WeTek OpenELEC, Five Ninja's Slice, Odroid C2, CuBox i2, CuBox i4, and HummingBoard.Compute-intensive tasks like displaying elaborate animation produced by media center software are not the ideal applications for a Raspberry Pi. However, if you're moving from OpenELEC to LibreELEC, you'll notice many familiarities, but LibreELEC has its own development cycle offering users a stable and bleeding-edge distribution. LibreELEC is to be considered an evolution of the OpenELEC project because the latter cannot be installed on all the single-board computers that the former supports. LibreELEC follows the development of Kodi so you'll always have the latest and greatest media center infrastructure at your fingertips. The main design goal of LibreELEC is to help users transform their embedded device into a powerful HTPC (home theater PC) or media center computer for managing their huge collections of movies, TV shows, images, music, etc. Your media at your fingertips, thanks to Kodi It is designed to be deployed on various popular singe-board computers (SBCs), including Raspberry Pi, Odroid C2, WeTek, Cubox, and others. LibreELEC is an open-source embedded operating system based on the Linux kernel and built around the free, open-source and cross-platform Kodi media center.

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