JeOS implementations for Kodi
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JeOS is the abbreviation (pronounced: Juice) for "Just Enough Operating System" as it applies to oftware appliances and embedded operating system are very easy too install and use implementations of Kodi for appliance usage on dedicated devices. Hiding a powerful combination of a Kodi and an almost hidden operating system for bare metal installation, a good JeOS implementation can make Kodi installation look, feel, and act just as any commercial set-top box or professional Smart TV media player.
There are several of these JeOS (Just enough Operating System) Linux distributions out there made by third-parties that are specifically designed to make Kodi into an software appliance, these include OpenELEC, GeeXboX, Xbian, OSMC, and a few more.
These JeOS implementations for Kodi are all separate free and open source projects on their own, all independently aiming to provide a complete media center software suite that comes with a pre-configured version of Kodi and third-party addons and plugins.Most of these are extremely small and very fast booting Linux-based distribution, that are primarily designed to be booted from USB flash memory or a solid-state drive. While this is kind-of a similar concept to that of the Kodibuntu distribution, JoOS distributions takes it a step father and specifically targeted minimum set-top box / Smart TV appliance hardware setup based on ARM SoC or Intel x86 processor mini-computers.
Introduction
JeOS generally refers to a customized operating system that is usually Linux-based and that fits the needs of a particular application (like Kodi). Since these implementations is not a generic, one-size-fits-all "desktop" operating system they only need to include the basic pieces of an operating system (e.g. a a Linux kernel, network stack, device drivers, and maintenance tools) required to provide optimized support a particular application and any other third-party components needed to the appliance. This JeOS design concept makes the appliance smaller, faster (to boot and to execute the particular application) and potentially more more stable as well as more secure than an application running under a full general-purpose operating system.