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

The Foundation has done a nice piece on the release of the latest and greatest version of OpenElec, the XBMC distro.\u00a0Read more information here<\/a>\u00a0or get the OpenElec distro from their site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Foundation has done a nice piece on the release of the latest and greatest version of OpenElec, the XBMC distro.\u00a0Read more information here\u00a0or get the OpenElec distro from their site.<\/p>\n

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