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FreeBSD Ported to XBox
NetFiber writes "FreeBSD has been ported to the XBox. "Over the last 2 weeks, I have been working on a port of FreeBSD for the XBox. The port is fully functional. The framebuffer is fully supported, same goes for sound and USB devices (such as an USB keyboard). Only ethernet is missing, currently." The FreeBSD on XBox website is here, downloads included." Update: 07/27 14:50 GMT by T : Rink Springer writes with a request that you use the primary mirror instead.
BSD ported to new Asus motherboard chipset.
I really fail to see how this is news, they ported BSD to what amounts to a hacked up x86 pc. While it's certainly an accomplishment for a couple of young guys to get framebuffer drivers and whatnot working, I don't really consider this news, as the xbox is so close to a PC.
Why do people bother porting this stuff to oddball platforms anyway. Talent like this could be used elsewhere in the OSS community instead of wasting time porting stuff to platforms like Nitendo DS.
This is why the OSS movement is crap. It's all about free software. Using the term OSS makes you forget that this is all about increasing freedom in the first place, not about increasing some arbitrary standard such as the "userbase of the community", especially when said community is ill-defined. Yes the talent of these developers could be used to do more "productive" things, but it's their time to waste, and if they were coerced into doing that then it wouldn't be a very nice community to be a part of, now would it? And remember if you want free software improved in certain ways, you're always free to pay someone to do it.