XBox Hardware Database Started

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday October 9, 2003 @08:22PM from the system-sighting dept.

PerlGuru writes "The Xbox-Linux project has posted a submission form, and now some initial results for various Xbox hardware details. The aim of the form is to collect enough information to be able to make a good guess as to the internals of the box before even taking it off the shelf at the store. Being able to predict the hardware is especially nice considering things like hard drives which can range from 8 to 20 (?) Gb, or the new video encoding chip from Focus which doesn't have Linux support yet."

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Re:Save yourself the trouble by Gogo+Dodo · 2003-10-09 21:17 · Score: 2, Insightful

I suspect most of the interest in XBOX hacking is to try to screw over Microsoft.
In the long run, it isn't going to do anything major to Microsoft. If somebody manages to get some unsigned Linux executable running on the XBOX, mainstream commercial developers aren't going to flock to Linux on XBOX. Microsoft would put too much pressure on those developers.
Not to mention, Microsoft can wipe the playing field clean with an XBOX 2 and ditch compatibility with the original XBOX. Then you have to start the whole process over again.