XBox Chip With Legal BIOS

Lours writes "OzXChip, an Australian company, has a new Xbox chip which comes preinstalled with the new (Cromwell Linux BIOS. Previous chips came without (or simplistic) BIOS for obvious legal and hardware-related (HD-key) reasons you had to go through a lot of manipulations in order to install a patched version of the original Microsoft BIOS or ask the vendor to do it which obviously he was not willing to do for free (when he was willing to). Since the new Cromwell BIOS is fully open source it can be shipped with the chip without any legal risks, gaining you a lot of time, sweat and money. Plus the chip has a very useful feature: by using software based on Andy Green's -- one of the maintainers of the XBox Linux project -- Raincoat, it lets you flash a new BIOS very easily: burn the BIOS file onto a blank CD, put it in the Xbox, boot and you are done. With such beasts there is not much left in the way of want-to-be Linux Xbox hackers who might have been affraid until now to have to deal with delicate hardware intricacies or reluctant to run the whole town for a vendor willing to mod their Xbox at the smallest fee. With important linux distributions also incoming (Debian and Mandrake are underway if not completed) it won't be long before everyone can write code for (and on!) the machine only a few minutes after receiving the chip in his mailbox. Hopefully we are going to see a zillion things running on the machine that Microsoft would only have dreamt of making (and selling)." Update: 01/23 16:07 GMT by T : The company's name is actually OzXChip, rather than OzChip (as originally rendered); thanks to reader Michael Muir for pointing this out.

Comments

first!

[Anonymous Coward]

yay first!!

FP

[Anonymous Coward]

K, this is good, right?

I mean; just imagine a beowulf cluster..

IN RUSSIA CMOS.. :(

yay

[edgecrusher]

hey, neat i've got the first post... and unfortunatly have nothing to say. since i dont have an xbox and, well, yeah. it's late, go to bed! bah..

FP

[jvollmer]

You think I am goo-rooking?
Like American movie-star, Robert Taylor?

first post

[Anonymous Coward]

finally!

Re:Good for MS

[Anonymous Coward]

Learn to spell...

Re:big deal

[plugger]

Get me one while you're at it. I'll have the cash next week, honest :)

Re:About time...

[Anonymous Coward]

HALO!!!
that is all :-)

**AMERICA**

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh dear Jesus save us from America!
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McDonald'sille ei syytettä lihavuuden aiheuttamisesta (23.1. 03:33)

McDonald's not guilty for causing people to get fat.

Amerikkalaistuomari on päästänyt maailmanlaajuisen pikaruokaketjun McDonald'sin pälkähästä hylkäämällä yhtiötä vastaan nostetun kanteen liikalihavuuden aiheuttamisesta.

American judge has decided to drop charges against McDonalds.

Kyseessä oli joukkokanne, jonka kantajat sanoivat, että hampurilaisketjun ruoka oli aiheuttanut liikalihavuuden ja sen seurauksena puhjenneet diabetekset ja muut terveysongelmat. Tuomarin mukaan kanteen takana olleet eivät pystyneet osoittamaan, että pikaruuan aiheuttamat vaarat eivät olisi olleet yleisesti kuluttajien tiedossa.

Kanne nostettiin viime kesänä. Yksi jutun kantajista oli 13-vuotias poika, joka on 176 senttiä pitkä ja painaa 125 kiloa. Hän on syönyt McDonald'silla kolme neljä kertaa viikossa.

Pikaruokakanteen ennakoitiin aloittavan samanlaisen syytesuman, kuin aikoinaan tupakkaoikeudenkäyntien. (STT)

Halo and...

[pommiekiwifruit]

what's the other one?

Re:Build it, the (apps) will come?

[stud9920]

Actually I am an electronics engineer, currently(*) teaching theorical electricity at the university. I do know that P=UI (actually P=UI*cos(phi)). In many languages, possibly also in English, which is not my mothertongue, current means electrical energy.

So indeed this was a nice troll