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OpenELEC 6.0 Beta 2 Packs In Linux 4.0, Mesa 10.6, Kodi 15.0 Beta 2

Written by Michael Larabel in Multimedia on 16 June 2015 at 10:01 AM EDT. Add A Comment

Building off this weekend's release of Kodi 15.0 Beta 2, the OpenELEC multimedia-focused Linux distribution is out with their second beta of the upcoming OpenELEC 6.0 release.

OpenELEC 6.0 is based off Kodi 15.0 Isengard while it updates the distribution's underlying components to Linux 4.0, systemd 219, Mesa 10.6, FFmpeg 2.6, X.Org Server 1.17, LibreSSL 2.1.7, etc. OpenELC 6.0 has also moved to using the xf86-input-libinput driver for Libinput-based input on its X.Org Server.

Those wishing to learn more about OpenELEC 6.0 Beta 2 can read the announcement in full at OpenELEC.tv.

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