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Linux on Xbox One Step Closer?

Posted by timothy on from the can-you-confirm-over-please-confirm dept.

RpiMatty1 writes: "Apparently the Linux Kernel has been booted on the Xbox. No mention of it on the Xbox-Linux Home page yet. Here is another posting of the same messages at Xboxhacker.net." I wonder if the recent security code change rules this particular development out for Xboxes purchased in the near future.

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  1. Huh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Linux on XBOX? Why would waste a perfectly good $300 piece of hardware? Linux should be confined to 8 year old 286 boxes with 384KB RAM.

    1. Re:Huh by Qrlx · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think he was thinking of CP/M.

  2. Re:Stop Xbox on linux now! by bsharitt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seriously folks, do we need to give more money to the red devil

    What's wrong with donating to FreeBSD?