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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. Re:Waste of Time by chabotc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well thats a simple question to awnser. Depening on your intrests you might want to:

    1) Make a microsoft sponsored linux box / workstation (they loose money on the hardware, so what could be sweeter!)

    2) Make a microsoft sponsored DVD / MPG / DivX / MP3 player

    3) Make a microsoft sponsored Top set box

    4) Make a nice quiet, cheap, fast enough, linux web / email / ftp server / etc, sponsored by microsoft!

    5) All of the above? ;-)

    Personaly i can not wait. The xbox is nice and small, and still relativly quiet. I think my first use for it will be to hook up a (usb?) network to it, and use it to play movies and mp3's from my server on my tv, saving my self the hassle of having to drag around notebooks or dedicate a big, ugly noisy pc to that function.

    Then hook up a nice wireless usb keyboard w/ intergrated trackball, and do a full screen galeon to create a nice web surfing / topset box experiance from the comfort of my couch.

    Then maybe hook up all the posible home automation gimics to a nice interface thru the xbox / tv, and be able to control my house from my tv?

    Then, install some tv cards on my server, and pipe its output to the xbox .. posibly extend with those nice linux mpg recording programs to make my own tivo style setup

    Also, I wonder if my current colocation facility will accept xbox's ?

    Man, the posibilities are endless, for a little under 300 bucks (and going down) and the sheere thought of microsoft sponsoring my linux projects, it's worth every bit of effort these developers are putting in to it!