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Xbox Receives Linux Mandrake 9.0

Posted by timothy on from the nice-nice-nice dept.

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."

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  1. Re:I don't want to buy MS products/. by bLanark · · Score: 2, Interesting

    However they can use those figures to get more games to the platform, and more sales, and more money.

    Hmm, I think that games makers will base their platform decision on how many games they sell on each platform, rather than how many of the platform there are out there.

    Initially there will have been a "me too!" attitude to Xbox game development, but down the road they'll now be saying "sold 40,000 on PS2, sold 5,000 on Xbox. Let's stop Xbox development/cut the team/whatever".

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  2. I shouldn't ask but... by thogard · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What would happen if someone was to approach MS as a game developer and officaly port this so its got all the real stuff and so MS can sell it at K-mart or wherever. I know its wrong on so many levels but it would get around the mod chip issue and be legal (assuming the licenses allow it)

  3. Re:Why? by blibbleblobble · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All they really do is helping MS finetuning their DRM system before it gets to he PC.

    Very true. However, they are also demonstrating legitimate uses of mod-chips, legitimate uses of hacking proprietry hardware, and legitimate reasons for cracking hardware protection. Best of all, they are doing so in a manner which can easily be recognised by the general public (of which judges are a subset) - "Cracking hardware is good: look, you get to run this mainstream, competitive, and popular OS distribution.

    A couple years ago, you'd have taken a modchip to court and the judge would say, "well yes, this is just for playing illegal games isn't it", but now you can take the same modchip along and the judge will see "yeah, that can be used to load the office-suite my son uses". Big difference.