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Xbox Runs Its First Legal Homebrew App

Posted by timothy on from the splashscreen-with-penguin dept.

PineGreen writes: "As Michael Steil, the Xbox Linux project leader says:'On the Xbox Linux website, you can download "linuxpreview," an application that runs on modded Xboxes and is completeley legal, because the XDK was not used for development, and it does not contain any Microsoft code.'. See the X-box logo and Tux on the same screen. More information here."

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  1. Not At All a Waste of Time by donnacha · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What a colossal waste of time.

    Hardly. If widespread modding, driven by a quite likely boom in Divx Movie piracy, becomes a reality, Xbox Linux could, no doubt much to the horror of "real" Linux folk, become by far the most popular form of consumer/home Linux.

    Sometimes success can arrive in unexpected forms.

  2. Re:Hey, Linux running on x86? by Craig+Maloney · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Actually I think several unsupported drivers were coded for this effort... It's called the XBox (in total).

    Why get all pissy with people who are enjoying themselves and are coding something that could potentially useful? I'm sure folks made similar claims when Linus rolled out his first kernel. "Why a new kernel? What a collosal waste of time! Think of all of the effort that could have been put into writing something for (insert favorite OS from 1993)

    That's OK, though. All of us are short sighted in our lives. I used to think the same way about KDE and GNOME. "What collosal wastes of time" I used to think. Fortunately those very talented programmers didn't listen to the naysayers. Now I don't scoff when someone ports Linux to different hardware architectures. Hey, it's their life. Let them have fun with it.

  3. Re:Waste of Time by oyenstikker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because they want to. They are using their resources to do something they want to do. They don't owe you anything. Open source hackers don't exist to make free software for you. They exist because they like doing it.

    (I can almost hear you all gasping.)

    To all of you hackers that have influenced and contributed to progams that I use: Thank you!

    To all of you hackers that spend your time doing things that I find utterly useless: Have fun!

    --
    The masses are the crack whores of religion.