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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.
would this work with the 007 Hack?
Mike
Just in case they figured out how to foil current mod chips this time. I still would prefer to use my Xbox for online gaming *gasp* than as a Linux box.
I'm the guy with the unpopular opinion
It's quite invigorating browsing interactive pr0n with the Xbox controls.
sweeeeeeeeeeet.
Mom says my
These new live CDs finally give us the chance to introduce Linux to the masses. Recently I emailed dozens of my friends, and I will attempt to introduce them to Linux in a way thats safe, with these new CDs you dont have to actually install Linux, It also gives us the ability to introduce Linux to the gamers. So the question here is how many of you people have actually used this to show people Linux? I wish we had a Redhat live-CD, or Mandrake because those are my favorite brand, but a Lindows promotion CD(Thats what I will start calling these CDs) should be given away in stores and to college students.
How about a grass roots program? I plan to do something like that. I hope through these new live-CDs that it can act as a type of marketing where people who are interested in Linux can try it without actually installing it. The easy way to get them to try it is to give it to them for their Xbox game console, a Console with no OS such as the Xbox would actually be perfect for the gamer who wants to do more than just play games on their Xbox. I also wonder if something like this could be brought to work or run on computer labs in college campuses, I havent tried it so I dont know. But yes, I have ideas for marketing.
People are going to read this and think i'm some kinda Linux zealot, but the truth is the best thing we can do for the computer industry right now is create competition, Linux is competition, competition fuels growth.
So all who are with me, please post a reply/response about how you plan to actually use these live CDs for marketing purposes, perhaps it would be wise to put these live CDs in some videogame magazine if possible, or even get Linux to run on the PS2.
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Why cant we try to use Wine or something like it to trick the Xbox into running the Microsoft gaming live software from withinn Linux?
Second, if its done right people might use Xbox Linux, if its useful, it depends on how its done. Overall though I'd use it to promote Linux, as a marketing technique.
Linux needs marketing, so that when the time comes a year or two from now, when Longhorn is released, Linux can take the market or at least be competitive, people have to actually know what Linux is though, as of right now people either dont know what it is, or they believe a bunch of myths about it being a hackerOS.
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It isn't that we have to introduce *gamers* to Linux. It's that we have to introduce *game developers* to linux. Gamers don't write games [well some may but most don't].
If you build it, they will come, etc, etc.
Same can be said for hardware manufacturers. Some working CMPCI drivers would kick ass too.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
would be interesting to see what xine could do on this platform. maybe any xbox could be turned into a full-featured dvd player (including menu support) that way?
time is a funny concept
MicroSoft XBox: $169.00
Mod Chip: $30.00
CD to burn the latest distro to: $0.20
Using the above system to call MicroSoft Tech Support via VoIP to complain about how bad KDE looks on a 20" black-and-white TV: PRICELESS.
-JT
Me: If you don't like Microsoft, why buy their game system.
You: They lose money on all of their systems.
Me: Even if they lose money that doesn't mean that they sell them for below variable cost. You are just helping recover fixed cost.
You: I don't understand your fancy moon language!
Me: Why not get a Lindows computer?
You: The X-Box has better hardware!
Me: It has like 48 megs of ram.
You: It has a nice graphics card!
Me: Fine, it has a nice graphics card.
Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
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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I see it first and foremost as a very efficient way of introducing people to linux without first having to convinve them that they need to repartition their box and install a new boot loader ("huh? boot loader?"), let alone install linux. With Knoppix etc. you can demo linux to someone in 2 minutes instead of 2 hours.
It could also be useful if you do contracting of any sort and would like to work on linux instead of you-know-what (you'd need a USB pen drive or the like for your data).
OK, so turning my XBox into a Tivo with the aid of a modchip, a larger hard-drive and this bootcd would be great, but for one obvious thing. Where on earth is the video-in they plan to use this with?
Similiarly, there is no audio-in for the sound recorders.
And Blender is a nightmare of a gui in the first place, even when you've got a keyboard and mouse...
At the end of the day, an Xbox version of KnoppixMAME would probably be more useful, I feel. Still, its an interesting experiment.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
You're one step close to becoming a PC! Woot!
I am appalled at the excitment that the idea of running GNU/Linux on a closed and proprietary system such as the XBox has caused. We at the GNU Project have the answer, and have been working on connection with OpenCores to produce the GNUBox console for all your GNU/Linux and The GNU/HURD requirements.
GNUBox version 0.14af2_1-1 is now available, and comprises of a blank sheet of mylar with a single -12v DC power line and a ground trace. We expect the hardware to be completed at around the same time as the Earths internal nuclear reactions cease and the planet cools and shrinks to a size of an Apple.
Yours GNU'ly
RMS
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.
There's nothing wrong (morally or legally) with experimenting with hardware you own.
:)
:)) but it's very similar in price to adding a low-end CD player to my existing car stereo. And I like my head unit (which has a line-in), so I don't want to get rid of it.
:) The external switch would be if I ever decide to buy, rent or borrow an actual XBox game ;)
Note that this use (running a Linux distro) in particular has nothing to do with "stealing" as in running illegally copied games. I'm not going to debate whether playing illegally copied games should be called stealing, just pointing out that it's not part of running Linux on an Xbox
The reason I bought an Xbox (and am shopping* for a mod-chip) is to use it as a music box for my car. That may sound silly to you (and it may *be* silly to you
A modded Xbox can also play Ogg Vorbis files, which is the format to which I've been ripping my CD collection for portable use. (Yes, many car decks now will play MP3s, but I don't have more than a handful of those.)
timothy
* Can anyone recommend an easy (no-solder), inexpensive, external-switch equipped modchip preloaded with the Cromwell BIOS?
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
Every time one of these "Linux on Xbox" stories pop up, I ask: Why?
I've gotten a few vague answers, ranging from "it has a good graphics card, I can now do all that rendering I've been waiting to do!" to "Don't tell me how to use my hardware, you sancimonious pro-Microsoft clone!"
I still ask: Why? Oh, yeah, there's that giddy little thrill of 'subverting' a Microsoft platform to run Linux, but you have to have actually purchased an Xbox to begin with, so you've already put money in Microsoft's coffers. With all the effort needed to get an Xbox to run Linux, there's tons of easier platforms so you fire up EMACS and check your email.
Once you done it, what are you going to do with it? Compartively speaking, apart from the graphics controller, it's not that good of a computing platform.