XBMC on Raspberry Pi - Wonder if this will work out? (Historical Discussion Thread)

Quote: I definitely won't be getting a Raspberry Pi anytime soon seeing as the guy behind the XBMC-port, Sam Nazarko is the same guy who claims that his Crystalbuntu is superior to AppleTV and OpenELEC quite blatantly. I don't like developers that bad mouth other projects, that's just poor taste.


The other issue is that it seems like he's the sole developer on this project and instead of being a community driven project. Can anyone confirm this?

Confirm what? That Sam is rolling his own build of Linux+XBMC for the RPi? Yes, he's doing that. That it's not community supported/driven? What gives you that idea? Did Sam state that he wouldn't accept any help/assistance/guidance on the project? If he did, I'd like to see where. I'm sure if you're willing to add to the project in a real way, he'd not turn you down.

As far as Sam stating Crystalbuntu is better than Openelec for the ATV1, that's a matter of opinion, and he's free to have his. Personally, I share that opinion. I don't like the locked down nature of Openelec and the inability to change things. To each his own.

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Please keep the distribution war out of this thread. Lets stay at xbmc on the PI.

nooryani84 Wrote:http://www.raspbmc.com/2012/02/everythin...developer/

Stop quibbling and nitpicking!

gimli Wrote:Please keep the distribution war out of this thread. Lets stay at xbmc on the PI.

I realize that I was being counterproductive, please accept my sincere apologies.

nooryani84 Wrote:I definitely won't be getting a Raspberry Pi anytime soon seeing as the guy behind the XBMC-port, Sam Nazarko is the same guy who claims that his Crystalbuntu is superior to AppleTV and OpenELEC quite blatantly. I don't like developers that bad mouth other projects, that's just poor taste.

The other issue is that it seems like he's the sole developer on this project and instead of being a community driven project. Can anyone confirm this?

To be clear. He's building a custom tailored linux OS distro around XBMC. XBMC will be able to run on several linux distros coming out for the Pi.

I see the RPi site is now saying "Arch Linux ARM for Raspberry Pi is now ready to go!"

Will it be possible to load XBMC on to this and/or would XBMCBuntu (LIVE) load OK?

Will either of these routes be better than Sam's RASPBMC distro?

Cheers

Excuse Newbie questions but an learning as have one of these on back order.

Mods - Would it be appropriate to move this thread to Help & Support now?

saintalan Wrote:I see the RPi site is now saying "Arch Linux ARM for Raspberry Pi is now ready to go!"

Will it be possible to load XBMC on to this and/or would XBMCBuntu (LIVE) load OK?

Will either of these routes be better than Sam's RASPBMC distro?

Cheers

Excuse Newbie questions but an learning as have one of these on back order.

Mods - Would it be appropriate to move this thread to Help & Support now?

That arch linux image will be basic, bare-bones, no frills commandline only. You'll need to use the pacman package manager to install the GUI system. If you're lucky someone will have compiled xbmc for the arm-distro and made it available via pacman. If not, you will need to compile it yourself (after compiling or installing the list of dependancies).

There are no wrong beginners questions! But, I would say in my experience, Arch is not a distribution for beginners.

However, you sound like you're up for learning, so why not take one of the other "official" distros like fedora and have a go at installing xbmc yourself on that. That'll be a good first step. If you run into massive difficulties, you can always try the OpenELEC or Sam's distro's... just a case of swapping another sdcard in at the end of the day! No reason why you can't try all the approaches in parallel if you've got a couple of sdcards hanging around - be a great learning experience

saintalan Wrote:I see the RPi site is now saying "Arch Linux ARM for Raspberry Pi is now ready to go!"

Will it be possible to load XBMC on to this and/or would XBMCBuntu (LIVE) load OK?

Will either of these routes be better than Sam's RASPBMC distro?

Cheers

Excuse Newbie questions but an learning as have one of these on back order.

Mods - Would it be appropriate to move this thread to Help & Support now?

You are asking if a bare bones OS that will require you to install and configure a bunch of extra stuff is better than a pre-made installation that "just works"?

No end-user even has one of these in their hands, so no thread move for now. Even when they do, just make a new thread.