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XBox Linux HOWTOs

Posted by michael on from the stay-alert-and-keep-your-soldering-iron-handy dept.

killmenow writes "Following up this slashdot story from a few days ago, today The Register is reporting that the XBox Linux folks have released a HOWTO for getting SuSE 8.0 running. Cool...I may have to go buy an X-Box now." There's also a HOWTO for Debian if that's your style. All of these require an XBox with modified hardware... There's also a story about the XBox online gaming service that implies Microsoft will be scanning your machine to make sure you haven't modified it, but we can't link to it since silicon.com has some sort of stupid registration requirement. Anyone find the story elsewhere? Ah, News.com has a story about XBox Live.

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  1. Mod Checking by falser · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Microsoft will be scanning your machine to make sure you haven't modified it.

    Bah! All you need to do is add another mod to hide the mod they look for. Remenicient of the ever popular radar-detector-detector.
  2. Re:Where, exactly, is modding prohibited? by mapmaker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Modding isn't prohibited, because it can't be prohibited.

    You don't *license* Xbox hardware from Microsoft, you *buy* it. When you buy something, you *own* it, and can do whatever the hell you want with/to it.
    So there is not and can not be a "license agreement".

    Now, Xbox Live is a different story. Xbox live is a service, not a piece of hardware. Microsoft can legally define the terms of that service, and one of the terms can be that only non-modded Xboxes are allowed to use it.

    To summarize: modding Xboxes is/can not be prohibited. Using modded Xboxes on Xbox Live can and probably will be prohibited.