OSXBMC Re-Branded as Plex
By Alexander Grundner |
July 7th, 2008
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In an attempt to differentiate itself from XBMC (and any other “Media Center” app), the XMBC splinter group (formerly known as OSXBMC) had decided to rename their project Plex – actually Plex2 since the plex.com domain was already taken. So what does this mean to Mac OS X users running OSXMBC? Not much other than the next time a new release is a available all the install files, themes, and its accompanying project website will be Plex branded. For more info on the announcement click here or jump to the project’s new domain: www.plex2.com or www.plexsquared.com (may take a while before it’s actually live).
July 8th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Clarification of the XBMC name and its ports and forks:
To start with the title of this article should to stay correct be renamed from “Xbox Media Center Mac Port Called “Plex”…” to the complicated “XBMC for Mac’s OSXBMC fork renamed to Plex”.
You see, the original XBMC is no longer named “XBox Media Center”, since it was made cross-platform (ported to Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows) it was a few months back officially been renamed to “XBMC” (and that is not an abbreviation any longer, see xbmc.org which is the official website).
XBMC (at the xbmc.org website) is and always will be the original upstream version of XBMC (and forks like Plex, Boxee, and MediaPortal will probably always continue to copy code updates from the original XBMC, same as we do from them if they implement a new feature or function that we like, that iss the nature of open source).
Now to the recent history and reason of OSXBMC being renamed to PLEX; Elan Fieldgold, as then Team-XBMC developer member, originally ported XBMC for Linux to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard later forked away from XBMC and called his fork OSXBMC (I will not go into details but the fork was due to development practice differences), Elan and Team-XBMC at that time agreed that it would then be best if he renamed it from OSXBMC to something else as Team-XBMC plan on continuing our version of XBMC for Mac to avoid the confusion from having two Mac OS X version out there with “XBMC” in the name. Now almost months later Elan has announced that the new name of OSXBMC is Plex, and that a new domain will be followed soon called plexsquared.com
So to sum up:
OSXBMC (www.osxbmc.com) becomes Plex (www.plexsquared.com)
XBox Media Center (xboxmediacenter.com) is now just XBMC (xbmc.org)
Team-XBMC (xbmc.org) will continue developing XBMC for all platforms
XBMC for Linux
XBMC for Mac
XBMC for Windows
XBMC for Xbox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC