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LinuXbox Boots

Posted by timothy on from the believe-it-or-not dept.

ducker writes: "Finally Xbox is ready for some real fun! Linux can be booted now ... just check out http://www.xbox-scene.com - Linux boots into a network-enabled state, running a web server and telnet, which allows you to log into the box from another machine. It can be booted either from flash memory, or (more easily) from a CD inserted into the machine. (The Xbox still needs to have a modchip fitted to allow it to run unsigned code)."

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  1. The /. effect by Alranor · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just wonder who's going to be the first to melt a web-serving x-box by sticking a link to it up here.

  2. What about my toaster..... by tanveer1979 · · Score: 3, Funny

    wont that be nice.. i boot linux on my toaster. Then I telnet.
    and then i check status
    eeks the toas has burned
    \rm -rf *toast*
    mkdir toast
    chmod soft-eatable-noblack toast

    Thats the only problem... i have to check various modes check which suits.
    And i was wondering can the quake III bots just use some plasma weapons and telnet the fire to my toaster. I will save electricity
    And now you are wondering why i am trolling about my toaster, rather than the x-box
    whew you never learn huh I CANNOT AFFORD XBOX but i can afford a toaster thats why.

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    1. Re:What about my toaster..... by MiTEG · · Score: 2, Funny

      but if the toaster was made by apple you would already have marmelaide!

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    2. Re:What about my toaster..... by phaxkolumbo · · Score: 3, Funny

      How about this:

      1. Port Linux to toaster.
      2. Port Apache to toaster.
      3. Network the toaster
      4. Announce on Slashdot that you've ported Linux to a toaster, and it's serving pages right now.
      5. Enjoy your toast within minutes. Make more while the toaster lasts.

    3. Re:What about my toaster..... by jonadab · · Score: 3, Funny

      $ \rm -rf *toast*
      $ mkdir toast
      $ chmod soft-eatable-noblack toast

      Ugh, so complicated. If you have Emacs installed with
      toast-mode set to autoload, you can just M-x make-toast.
      The first time you do this, you'll probably want to do
      M-x customize-group toast-mode and set up the various
      toast-mode variables to your liking. The defaults are
      reasonable for making wheat toast, but if you keep your
      toaster loaded with multigrain bread as I do, you may
      find that you need to set toast-mode-toast-threshhold
      a little higher, because the bread toasts more slowly
      than ordinary wheat bread.

      Someone a while back was working on an enhancement to read
      in the toast darkness from the toaster's sensors (if you have
      one of the more advanced models) and thus automatically make
      the necessary adjustments for different kinds of bread, but I
      think he ran into a problem where Emacs 20 didn't support
      something he needed and put it on the back burner. I don't
      know whether he ever resumed work on it after Emacs 21 came
      out, but I haven't heard anything about it. Anyway, you
      want to adjust how dark the bread is toasted according to
      taste anyway, so this enhancement is really only useful if
      you don't always stock the same kind of bread.

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  3. Just Months Away... by dbretton · · Score: 3, Funny

    From getting MAME on the XBox. How cool is that?

    1994 video games running poorly on 2002 hardware!

    Tune in next week when we hack the Kanazawa NEC supercomputer with Linux! With some luck, we may get to be able to run Doom at 30fps. Woo-hoo!

  4. FINALLY! by atrowe · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm starting to get sick of playing all those flashy professionally-made games on my high end gaming machine. Now I can finally play classic games like Tuxracer, Freeciv, fortune, and hangman and leave all those crappy multi-million-dollar Xbox games on the shelf. Thank you, hackers, for bringing Linux' superior game selection to the Xbox!

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  5. Amazing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whoah! Linux running on Intel hardware! What will these crazy Linux hackers think of next...

  6. Oh, the Humanity.. by CBNobi · · Score: 3, Funny
    Slashdot's managed to annihilate:

    The X-Box may be the most formidable yet.
  7. Re:Great by Cryptnotic · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the Xbox is a little more powerful than a Dreamcast.

    Dreamcast had better games.

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  8. Re:Hah! The irony! by dbirchall · · Score: 3, Funny
    I suppose since the Xbox is a Microsoft product, the porters felt obligated to have it boot into a networked state with our old insecure friend the telnet daemon running?

    Hope they'll have sshd (one of the non-backdoored ones) in as a replacement soon.

  9. My toaster runs NetBSD... by bsDaemon · · Score: 4, Funny

    and my coffee pot is 100% Pure Java(tm).