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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. Lies! All of it Lies! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Lies. If you read their website, apparently some "guy on IRC told me [the evil hardware specs]." Some guy on IRC.

    Now, I'm sure there is some nature of fritzing and DRM going on. But look at the OS X 86 builds. And Apple clearly has more prowess than Microsoft.

  2. Great for TuxKart and SuperTux by sagefire.org · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This would be great for TuxKart http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net/ and SuperTux http://supertux.berlios.de/! Or would these be more appropriate on a hacked Revolution http://www.nintendo.com/revolution?

  3. Games obviously run by jimktrains · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Instead of making linux work on the 360, can't someone write a "game" that woudl use the live network to become a distrib node? The game woudl be number crunching code.

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