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Linux Finally Getting XBMC

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can't-live-without-it dept.

B47h0ry'5 CuR53 writes "XBMC is getting ported to Linux. A few developers of Team-XBMC have begun the porting of XBMC to Linux using OpenGL and the SDL toolkit. In this effort, they are recruiting developers. XBMC is, by far, one of the finest projects to come out of the open source community; and to think it is homebrew. XBMC is a massive project, with the current SVN branch weighing about 350M before compilation. Porting it will be a big effort and any hackers willing to contribute should check out the Linux port project."

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  1. Re:What is XBMC? by jonwil · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, I believe XBMC is for the first XBOX. I don't think homebrew is possible on the 360 unless you can somehow get a certain firmware version onto your 360 (without ever having something later that blows the hardware fuses and prevents a downgrade)

  2. Re:What is XBMC? by twistedsymphony · · Score: 3, Insightful

    yeah I did notice that actually. You can extend that standards compliance to bluetooth devices like headsets, as well as flash media, wi-fi, etc.

    I really like that direction and the PS3 makes a great media device for those reason IMO. I'd own one except I don't need a media device and there's nothing on the console yet that excites me as a game machine.

    The number of people looking for a media device and game machine wrapped into one at a price to reflect that I would suspect is much smaller then the number of people looking for just a media device or just a game machine and not wanting to pay for things they don't need.

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  3. Why bother with humility ? by Etyenne · · Score: 5, Insightful

    XBMC is, by far, one of the finest projects to come out of the open source community

    Clearly, it is in the same league as Apache, Firefox, gcc and the Linux kernel.

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