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Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the well-and-probably-software-piracy-too dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Free-X have released an exploit for the Xbox that will let you get Linux on the machine without any hardware mods at all... Microsoft is already threatening them with legal action. Here's the Free-X statement. Free-X say they had been trying to contact MS for a month but were ignored, which is why they've released the exploit. Should be interesting to watch this one."

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  1. Somewhere in Redmond... by MoeMoe · · Score: 0, Troll

    Somewhere out in Redmond, a disgruntled MS worker is looking at this article and getting ready to give Mr. Gates a "special" Independence Day present...

    Can't wait to see Bill's face when he turns on his pretty new X-Box and up pops Tux shouting "Do ya like it up the ass Gates?! HUH!?!?!"

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  2. this kind of illegal activity... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    is coming to respresent the linux community as a whole. this is a step back for open-source/linux, not a step forward.