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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. OMG!!! by BushCheney08 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMG! Zonk has hacked Taco's account!

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  2. article submitters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Has anyone else noticed that since digg.com came along, we've been getting article after article from it, just with different links?

    It's like watching some shitty MMORPG - people farming by waiting at the source for one commodity and taking it someplace else.

    The last 3 articles - xbox 360 linux, string for crashing xbox 360s, and firefox fps engine - were on digg earlier. There's technically nothing bad about the stories - they're News for Nerds and all that, just like there's nothing technically wrong with the money you can buy for Guild Wars on ebay, but it's cheap and crappy.

  3. 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.

  4. 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?

  5. Security isn't about perfection-bragging. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Security is about dissuading people from doing things, not preventing them."

    I wonder how all these "Xbox can be hacked", and "green marker" people would feel if we were discussing Linux security?

    "Woo Hoo! Xbox can be hacked! *much rejoicing in "/." land* Those MS lamers aren't as good as us."

    "Woo Hoo! Linux can be hacked! Ah that's nothing we can't fix, and we're still better than everyone else. So there"

  6. 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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