XBMC 10.1 is released ! PPA Ubuntu and LinuxMint

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XBMC 10.1 is released,  The main focus of this release is to address a bug that could cause XBMC to freeze when updating a skin. To increase stability, it is adviced to update to this new release.

This release fixed the following bugs:

• If an in-use skin was updated in Windows, XBMC would freeze
• Some RTMP streams in Windows did not play
• Included add-ons have been updated
• The correct referrer is now used for downloading add-ons, improving dependency statistics
• Crashes during playback on ATI hardware in some circumstances have been fixed
• Hardware decoding improvements for OSX
• Various small fixes

Installation in Ubuntu and LinuxMint:

Open terminal and enter the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install xbmc

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