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Xbox Receives Linux Mandrake 9.0
An anonymous reader writes "Today the Xbox Linux Project announced that Xbox Linux Mandrake 9 has been released. This is the first complete Linux distribution for the Microsoft Xbox gaming console.
A 350 MB installation CD of Xbox Linux Mandrake 9 is available for download free of charge from the Xbox Linux website."
After considerable expense, and a gift of considerable legal resources and time by the law firm of Davis & Schroeder in Monterey, California in recovering the U.S. registered trademarks for Linux, Linus and his advisors concluded that the only way to protect the mark was to actively pursue the registration of it in a number of countries around the world and to maintain the U.S. mark in his name. To do so has required that we aggressively prosecute people who tried to register the name for their exclusive use in the U.S. and other countries, which we have successfully done in five countries. Should you become aware of other people claiming the exclusive use of the mark in other countries, please contact us at the address below.
So you could say it is a protected trademark in most countries. If someone else tries to trademark it, they will protect it aggressively.
Ah, after a bit of research in the FAQs, I've found the answer to my question:
Will I still be able to play games once Linux is on my hard disk?
That depends on the solution you choose. If you run Linux through the XBE bootloader on an Xbox with a modchip, there's a dual-boot solution.
There are also "Live CD's" that make it possible possible to run Linux from a CD without having your hard disk modified at all.
If you use the replacement ROM method, you would have to install both ROMs in parallel to be still able to run games.
How about shutting down Lik Sang for selling mod chips for the xboc