2012-03-04, 01:02
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.
gimli Wrote:Please keep the distribution war out of this thread. Lets stay at xbmc on the PI.
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?
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?
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?
Jimmer Wrote: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
Ned Scott Wrote: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.
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?
gimli Wrote:Please keep the distribution war out of this thread. Lets stay at xbmc on the PI.
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