Any idea when Debian Stretch will be available for Pi 1?

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(13th Oct, 2018 04:27 PM)williamdosa Wrote:  another question i want answer to Which OS for KODI? OSMC, OpenELEC, Xbian, maybe Raspbian?
Hello. I received my first arm device ever, the Raspberry Pi 2 B! I wanted to give KODI a try and was wondering which operating system to use. I understand there's primarily OpenELEC, OSMC and Xbian.

They seem fairly similar so I don't know where to start. It looks like OpenELEC is the most popular, but I understand there's no proper package manager or access to sudo, so seems boring from a technical point of view. https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=xbian%2C%20osmc%2C%20OpenELEC&date=today%2012-m&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT-1

What about Raspbian for a more general purpose OS, or is that a bad idea?

I think you are in the wrong section of the forum...

Kodi is a multi platform (OS) software... you can choose a build for any OS from Windows to vary flavours of Linux distros.

You are in a forum for a specific branch of Raspbian, (help me here devs, i speak only of my perception of what Xbian is) that is a Debian distro for the small all in one computer Raspberry Pi (1 to 3), optimized to run Kodi and to enable the use of any Pi as a HTPC.

Since you have a Pi (and you can swap OS by simply swapping SDCARDS) i suggest you install all options out there (OpenElec, Xbian, etc...) and decide for yourself what is better for your needs.

My opinion is go with Xbian, but that is based on my personal experience. Also use a branded SDcard.