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\"Openelec<\/a><\/p>\n

Interesting post from Vincenzo Ampolo about the three XBMC distributions currently available for the Pi.<\/p>\n

Openelec vs Raspbmc vs Xbian \u00ab goshawk’s digital nest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In short, he rates them in the following order:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Xbian<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. OpenElec<\/li>\n
  3. RaspBmc (he really doesn’t like this one, and I can’t say I’m surprised!)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Good article this one with Xbian as the surprise winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Interesting post from Vincenzo Ampolo about the three XBMC distributions currently available for the Pi. Openelec vs Raspbmc vs Xbian \u00ab goshawk’s digital nest. In short, he rates them in the following order: Xbian OpenElec RaspBmc (he really doesn’t like…<\/p>\n

    Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-centre","category-software"],"yoast_head":"\nOpenelec vs Raspbmc vs Xbian [reblog] - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2331\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Openelec vs Raspbmc vs Xbian [reblog] - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Interesting post from Vincenzo Ampolo about the three XBMC distributions currently available for the Pi. 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