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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. Stop Xbox on linux now! by t0qer · · Score: 5, Informative

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

    Just the other day I was strolling around in fry's. I had just bought some KVM cables and I needed a gender changer when I saw the neatest thing I seen in a while. I don't remember the name but i'll try and be as detailed as possible...

    There was this tiny mobo at fry's with a 800mhz CPU soldered on board. The thing couldn't have been bigger than a mousepad. It had video out, firewire, usb, bunch of other stuff on it.

    The price?

    Only $129!

    I know a lot of people want to use the xbox as a cheap linux station, but seriously folks, everytime an xbox is purchased it goes back to satan himself.

    Now even though this lil mobo/cpu thingy didn't have the latest nvidia chip, I could slap up to 2 pc100 dimms in there. It's a helluva lot smaller than an xbox. If I wanted a pretty injected plastic moulded case I could walk over to the next isle and grab a project box. (I was thinkin tap plastic acrylics)

    So which would you rather have?
    xbox (and you're bills bitch)+70 bucks for a mod chip
    129 cpu mobo combo and some spare parts you got layin around the garage.