[TychoCaine]

The hardware on the Chromebox is standard enough that it's fully supported by any Linux distro using a up-to-date kernel (4.3+ recommended).

GalliumOS is a Ubuntu derivative that is optimized for ChromeOS devices (boxes and books) and uses lxde I believe; it's quite light and fast, and can be themed if you don't like the default look. It's what I'd recommend if you want a good general purpose distro, but I haven't tested everything, and my focus as a developer (outside of firmware stuffs) is on OpenELEC.

Also, fwiw emulators work very well via the retroarch addon in OpenELEC.

Thanks for the feedback Matt.. I played w/ Gallium and Ubuntu last night.. Gallium looks really promising but I just love the speed and convenience of OE so I think I will stay with it for the time being.
I just read up on the work done by tssemek w/ Retroarch so I am guessing it's well improved since the last time I tried to use it and I also found some forum posts where someone got moonlight working on a Raspberry Pi w/ OE so I might just approach it from the angle of trying to make the things I want to work work under OpenElec... at least that way if it works I can give something back to the OE community.

Does anyone know if there's a more recent replacement or alternative to this old (deleted) page:
http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=...DVB_sample

Cheers,

TC