Xbox Modchip Featuring Onboard Operating System

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, 2004 @08:30AM from the that-and-a-pawnshop-visit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A group of talented coders known as TeamXodus, have released an xbox modification chip with a difference, the 'Xenium' is a modchip which features a fully legal operating system that was coded by the team from scratch. The mod can be installed Solderlessly and will allow the end user to unlock the power of the xbox and run applications such as Linux on their Xbox. The onboard Operating system currently stands at version 2.0 and features a massive 1.35 million lines of code and was recently reviewed by HomeCinemaChoice whereby they declared the Xenium 'The creators of the easiest Xbox modification - the complete package.'"

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Is the xbox still around? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-26 08:34 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I want a hack which allows me to play decent games on it.
1. Re:Is the xbox still around? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-26 08:51 · Score: -1, Flamebait
  
  It's not a flamebait. There really are no XBOX games worth a damn that can't be on other systems.
Take em down by BaCkBuRn · 2004-09-26 08:34 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Microsoft has a contender for the console market. Oh wait its their own hardware with someones better software. hummm ms seems to be doing great.

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Re:Cool! by wed128 · 2004-09-26 09:16 · Score: 0, Flamebait

theyve been running linux on xbox for a while, i mean IIRC it's x86 for gods sake. this is just a new way of doing it, that's all.