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GNU/Linux bootable CD on XBOX: dyne:bolic
jaromil writes "The dyne:bolic bootable CD distribution is almost getting to its final 1.0 release, includes a whole bunch of multimedia applications making it easy to edit and stream audio and video, encrypt mails, share p2p and of course play games, all with a fancy GNUStep desktop. download the 1.0 alpha 5 ISO (~350Mb) and try it on your PC or XBOX!" One more reason to mod an xbox.
Most modern mod-chips come with the option of switching to the original BIOS instead. Microsoft can still check you HDD for strange-looking software, and out of spec HDDs, but the bios mod should be fine.
Try out fish, the friendly interactive shell.
Linux has been available on the PS2 for quite a while now.
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Um...you DO realize they have to mod the box first, right? Your friends are all handy with a soldering iron, I take it?
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
Actually, I remember reading an article about in Japan where chicks were using the playstation controller to, um...well, dual-shock themselves.
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Used to be named "dyabolique" but it infringed on another project's name. So they added a colon to give it street cred.
Window Maker a GNUstep desktop does not make, I'm afraid.
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sure it will. just set the write enable pin of the xbox-flash, run the savegame & flash the bios the way you like it.
there is already a new savegame exploit for the M$-game MechAussault, that also updates the xbox-live runtime. perhaps the dashboard is exploitable too & linux gets _independent_ from a modchip or hardware modifications.
Here's a good way to have a bootable Linux CD at all times, ready to demo whenever the opportunity shows:
Buy a Bootable Business Card from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Shop! You get to spread the word of Linux while sending $5 towards a wonderful cause!
The AV port on the back is labled 'Input/Output', I don't know if that just means sync signals come in or something useful to a MythTV style project...
/.er out there got the schematics? Or are they also hidden by the DMCA?
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No video-in there.
it's in my head
hell even a new file system was involved so most people cant even access their old files.
What are you smoking, and can I get some?
XP runs on FAT32 as well as NTFS; it also has a filesystem conversion program to (transparently) convert FAT32 (or FAT16, I suppose, but I don't know anyone who still uses it).
I've upgraded a half-dozen Win98 systems to XP, and every last one of them can access their old files.
It's on the front page of xbox-scene right now and here and you can download it here
One dyne is the force required to cause a mass of one gram to accelerate at a rate of one centimeter per second squared in the absence of other force-producing effects; A dyne is 100.000 times a newton.
It's a concept defined by Heraclitus, a greek philosopher born at Ephesus around 540 B.C., which once also said that "much learning does not teach understanding".
Panta rei.
Every time one of these "Linux on Xbox" stories pop up, I ask: Why?
Well, here's an idea: because I own one, and I'd like to fuck around with it, just for fun.
Surprisingly, some people actually buy the Xbox because they like the games for it. I for one wouldn't spend the exact same money on a PS2 that doesn't come with a hard drive or space for more than two controllers. And I've been a Bungie games fan for almost forever and now the Xbox is the only way to play them.
So, since I have the thing, why not see what else it can do? Maybe be a platform to view internet fansubbed anime on?
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If at first I don't succeed, I quit!