by andrewboring » Thu Dec 05, 2019 3:41 pm
RPi-2-latest contains a 32-bit kernel and bootloader from the Raspberry Pi foundation and the Raspberry-pi "firmware" package which contains all the userspace libraries/tools to allow direct access to various hardware features of the Raspberry Pi (eg, the GPU).
RPi-3-latest contains a 64-bit mainline Linux kernel and the Universal Boot Loader (U-boot) to crank the system. The kernel does include device tree overlays ("drivers") to provide kernel access to some features, like the GPU. But not all Raspberry Pi features are available, and those that are must go through the kernel to use them.
Beyond that, all the standard Arch Linux stuff is as you would expect from the Intel side, but ported to ARM.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') looking for set up my raspberry pi as a media center server, maybe with Kodi. What is the best choice between these two version for that purpose ?
RPi-2-latest is the version you probably want. I haven't used Kodi on RPi, but I do recall reading that omxplayer was written for it (dunno if it's a dependency). You won't get omxplayer on RPi-3-latest at all, though there has been some recent work to move that forward. Some other Kodi features may not work on the RPI-3-latest version either, if they require the raspberrypi-firmware package.