L ibreELEC has been in active development since 2016, when a number of OpenELEC programmers decided to fork the project.
According to the main website, its purpose is to provide “just enough operating system” to run the Kodi media player, which is reflected in the fact that it runs happily on single-board computers such as the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5.
This said, the project wiki advises against trying to run LibreELEC on legacy hardware, as “just enough” doesn’t always stretch to older device drivers.
IN BRIEF
Although the setup was a little clunky, post-install LibreELEC runs Kodi flawlessly. It remains the perfect OS to play and stream your favourite content from one place.
SPECS
CPU: 1GHz
Mem: 1GB
HDD: 500MB
Builds: AMD64; ARMhf, ARMv7, ARM64
IN BRIEF