12-13-2017, 04:02 PM
Here are my 2cents. And as you know I'm a LibreELEC developer so my mind is set on it. Imho there is no better Kodi support for those small embedded devices like the Rock64 than in LibreELEC. I'm also a Debian guy, actually I have been maintaining my own debian based OS for my Odroid C2 before. I was never able to get the same quality as in LibreELEC. I ditched Debian and started working on LibreELEC.
I guess it all depends on what you are trying to do. Do you need your mediacenter to also be your server?
I actually have a dedicated OdroidC2 as a headless Ubuntu Server.
ROCK64 is so cheap that you can have multiple of those.
Then there is Docker in LibreELEC. It gives you the ability to have a full blown Linux with write access to root etc.
You don't have to do a lot of work. Just install the docker addon from the repo, ssh to LE and pull the container you like. Depending on your download speed it only takes couple of seconds to have a working installation of your favorite linux based OS.
We also have a dedicated kodi repo in our repo for kodi docker addons from the linuxserver.io guys. You can install and setup those from Kodi GUI. They give you small.containers with commonly used sevices like NextCloud, mariadb, emby server, tvheadend. Then are all preconfigured and ready to use.
I guess it all depends on what you are trying to do. Do you need your mediacenter to also be your server?
I actually have a dedicated OdroidC2 as a headless Ubuntu Server.
ROCK64 is so cheap that you can have multiple of those.
Then there is Docker in LibreELEC. It gives you the ability to have a full blown Linux with write access to root etc.
You don't have to do a lot of work. Just install the docker addon from the repo, ssh to LE and pull the container you like. Depending on your download speed it only takes couple of seconds to have a working installation of your favorite linux based OS.
We also have a dedicated kodi repo in our repo for kodi docker addons from the linuxserver.io guys. You can install and setup those from Kodi GUI. They give you small.containers with commonly used sevices like NextCloud, mariadb, emby server, tvheadend. Then are all preconfigured and ready to use.