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by Ra1d3n 4187 days ago
This is a very confusing name. My first thought was that this is a opensource election software.
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lnanek2 4187 days ago
Agreed. At least XBMC had "media" in there. If they are going to use such meaningless names, they should just always stick "media software" after the name in all posts or something.
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sciurus 4187 days ago
XBMC just changed its name to Kodi.

http://kodi.tv/

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psykovsky 4187 days ago
> At least XBMC had "media" in there.

OpenELEC also has "Entertainment"and "center" in there.

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johnchristopher 4187 days ago
I kinda like how `KODI` comes from known visuals.

To me XBMC has always sounded more about XBOX than MediaCenter and it feels weird running it on the pi on pc when it has nothing anymore to do with XBox.

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agumonkey 4187 days ago
Would never have guessed that it stands for Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center.
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