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FreeBSD Ported to XBox

Posted by timothy on from the mulitplicity dept.

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.

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  1. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's troll posts like this that make Slashdot great.

    Of course this is news. Do you think you can just fire BSD into your xbox and everything will run fine and dandy?

    Maybe you should read the xbox linux contest rules:
    Project A
    Project B

    This, by the way, was a *contest* to get linux running on xbox, the prize for which was a total of $200K donated by Michael Robertson of Linspire fame.

    Strange that he should offer so much for running Linux on "what amounts to a hacked up x86 pc"...

    Give credit where credit's due, please. This is super work.

  2. Re:No ethernet? - Gentoox been going years by trancemission · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have happily been running web/mail server on my xbox for over a year: http://gentoox.shallax.com/ This guy is dedicated and has an interesting history with the 'offical' xbox project. This distro kicks ass.....oh and he's done all this whilst at uni and just got his results A1/A1/A1/A2 :)

  3. Re:But does by WushuJim · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, you can run Linux binaries with the Linux binary compatibility module.

  4. Re:Ethernet missing? by cbreaker · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can't just plug in "a lot of USB ethernet controllers" because the XBox controller ports, albiet USB, are not a USB connection. You need a converter, and THEN the controller. And when all is said and done, you'd left with a crappy 11Mbit of USB Ethernet speeds whereas the onboard controller (e100) is actually very good.

    I'm not whining - I really don't give a crap either way. But this isn't a solution by any means.

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  5. Re:Back To The Future... by aderusha · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can get info on emulators for the 2600 and about 30 other retro systems on the xbox here.

  6. Re:Ethernet missing? by Anubis350 · · Score: 3, Informative

    you can quickly and easily make a MS USB to normal USB adapter with a USB extension cord, a solder gun, solder, and an xbox breakwaway cable in about in 5 mins... Instructions are on the linux xbox website

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