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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. os x? by jest3r · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Being a triple core 3.2GHz PowerPC it would be cool to get OS X running on the XBOX 360.

    1. Re:os x? by cbreaker · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The Xbox 360 CPU cores are very simple and a full G5 processor should be able to outperform the Xbox in any real world applications.

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  2. are there any non-gaming applications to this by caffeinemessiah · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...because a lot of good came out of the original Xbox being hacked. I'm sure there are a lot of high-perf researchers on a shoestring who are eyeing the price on the basic Xbox 360. Even without a hard disk, a small memory card should be enough to house a basic computation/communications infrastructure, and with the retail price on the basic 360, you should be able to string a bunch of them together to get decent computing power at a price even lower than a low-end Beowulf. I understand that the obvious application of hacking the 360 is so that you can play pirated games, but I for one am eagerly waiting to see what comes out of this project, and the PS3-hack that is soon to be.

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  3. Well, in regards to piracy... by Sigmund+Dali · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've long thought that the only reason MS decided to go with the smaller laptop drives is their drastically reduced capacity. Does the lure of piracy decrease with the size of the Hard Drive? I'll admit that on my modded XBox, I prefer to rip all of my *legit* games to the HD, just for easy access. Anybody else think the same way?