On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:32:16 +0100
"R.Wieser"  wrote:

> Dave, Jan,
>
> > ... which is read-only.  Great for appliances, not so good if you want
> > to hack.
>
> :-) I thought that on Linux editing configuration files was quite common,
> and did in no way ammount to anything like hacking.

 Usually it is, but for systems that are designed as appliances it
is common to put the OS and base configuration in a read only squashfs file
both to save space and sometimes to restrict the possible changes (it is
after all an appliance, preventing foot-shooting is good even at cost of
flexibility). There usually has to be some read/write storage often
overlaying the read-only filesystem but it can be RAM based so the changes
vanish on reboot (great for security) or non-volatile which is handier.

> So, no possibility to change the configuration of  LibreElec -> Kodi ->
> YouTube ?   That would be ....  odd.   I'll create a new thread for that
> though.

 I'd be surprised but it's been a long time since I looked at
LibreELec and that wasn't terribly closely.

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