#Media center os update
#Media center os upgrade

Booting your Raspberry Pi (after a setup phase that is not automatic) you will notice a substantial difference between OpenELEC and Raspbmc: OpenELEC is much more optimized, so you can see how the user interface is much more lightweight, and how much system operations are faster than a complete (similar to general purpose) system like Raspbmc.Д®ven if we can have a plugin system working out of the box, surely we have less room for customizations: OpenELEC can be used to run a streamlined XBMC instance only, and if you want to add another executable or run another software combined with XBMC, clearly you canвЂ™t. The image to flash on your SD card is 100 MB total, and the resulting operating system is so monolithic. While Raspbmc cuddles you between package management, a complete plugin system and all the tools to maintain a state-of-the-art operating system updated with the latest features, OpenELEC is the Sparta of the media center OSes. OpenELEC is the opposite of Raspbmc for the most of the time you use it. While other products are so much lightweight but less extensible because they are much more optimized, Raspbmc includes an heavy bunch of features to please the user and assemble a fantastic user experience for a media center, the user interface and the processes will result slow sometimes, because all of this stuff has to confront itself with a complicated system located underneath. Having automatic upgrades and an available out of the box plugin system is only possible if you have a full-featured Linux operating system as your core. And, ladies and gentlemen, it is totally automatic!

#Media center os upgrade

This is so useful, because while I have my meal, I can upgrade my smart TV having my PC doing other things such a render (I know: modern machines have para-multitasking, but when I must do one heavy-computational activity, I prefer that job to take all my CPU).

#Media center os update

We can see how Raspbmc is powerful from its automatic upgrade tool: from this simple software we can update our system directly, without having to pull the SD card off, without having it connected to our machine.