Linux Finally Getting XBMC

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 30, 2007 @12:51AM 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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Re:What is XBMC? by jonwil · 2007-05-30 00:57 · 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)
Why bother with humility ? by Etyenne · 2007-05-30 02:29 · 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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