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Free60 Project Aims for Linux on Xbox 360

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the a-laudable-goal dept.

BlueMoon writes "The Free60 Project wiki and developers mailinglist has been launched. The project aims to port open source operating systems like GNU/Linux and Darwin to the Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming console. The site already contains some interesting details about the Xbox 360 security: per-box key stored on CPU, boot ROM will be on CPU too and a hypervisor verifies the running state of the kernel."

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  1. coming up: Running Windows IIS server with wine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why do you want to buy from M$ and do a ...

  2. Nice try by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But you're utterly wrong. The OP made a claim, without posting a shred of evidence, and I asked him/her to back it up. I'm genuinely interested to hear where he (or anyone else) thinks flaws might be in the 360's security model. The fact that no-one has presented a single argument to back this up, while at the same time moderating it up 'Interesting', says a lot about the collective mindset of this website.

  3. Why "Free-something?" by WWWWolf · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why do all of these projects want to name themselves "Free This" or "Open That"? Okay, they are Free or Open projects and should be justifiably proud about that, but I think it's silly to boast about that in the project name. It gets in the way in the long run. I'm personally not happy with "OpenOffice.org", for example - They went "Oh, let's call this open office, that's so original", turned out the name was taken, "err, let's call it open office dot org instead"...

    It's also way too silly if you try to work the "Free" into some sort of pun on original name. For a long time I thought XFree86 was "um, some sort of free x86 version of X? what a weird name." Then, someone explained it was actually a pun on X386 (X-three-eighty-six vs. free-eighty-six).

    Not to even mention it can be dangerous to pull stunts like this - Blizzard wasn't happy about Freecraft, and I didn't think they really had a case about "Freecraft" being too similar to "Warcraft"; but I'm pretty sure Microsoft might be just annoyed enough to flame "Free60" to ground because, hey, it sounds pretty close to "Three-sixty"...

    1. Re:Why "Free-something?" by WWWWolf · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Oh, right, thanks for the flamebait mod. Of course, it wasn't my intention at all for that to draw flames or anything. I think it's a valid issue.

      The world is full of ridiculous trademark lawsuits, and I think it would be prudent to not play with fire. I'm not at all surprised if Microsoft forces Free60 folks to change name, if they don't do it themselves.

  4. Re:Why? by Oldsmobile · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Then you my friend, are no better than Hitler.

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  5. Re:Easier option... by ArbitraryConstant · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    A G4 -- one of the slowest desktop processors available -- versus a three-core chip with an enhanced altivec and much higher clock speeds.

    Why do you think?

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