I'm confused... Are the s905 and s905x community builds Linux or Android based?

1st Official Post

    The latest alpha version of LibreELEC supports Odroid C2 - I believe that's based on Linux. On the s905x front - and here's where I'm confused - it appears that the community builds in testing are Android based? Am I way off on this.

    Thanks

    I 'think' your confusion may be based on the fact that a lot of the 905 devices are SOLD as Android TV units, as in they come with some variant of Android as the supporting OS.

    The builds used here replace that OS with a dedicated and tuned version based on linux.

    Imagine your windows 10PC, wipe it and install Ubuntu

    Edited once, last by silashack (September 14, 2016 at 11:30 AM).

    • Official Post

    For a little further explanation...

    Let's look at the 'ELEC' part of LibreELEC, which means:

    Embedded Linux Entertainment Center


    So it's always Linux ;)

    Now you could say.."Hey...Android is based on Linux as well". Then we say "Yes, it is. But LibreELEC is still it's own Linux Distro. LibreELEC is not a programm...it's an OS which ships a program (Kodi in our case)." ;)

    If you have further questions, let us know.

    Cheers