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XBMC 'Atlantis' Beta 1 Released, Now Cross-Platform

Posted by timothy on from the let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a welcome followup to last year's promise of XBMC being made available for Linux: "The first cross-platform Beta version[s] of XBMC Media Center for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and Xbox have now been released in preparation for an upcoming stable release, code named 'Atlantis.'" Now, though, there are binaries available for download through the XBMC Media Center site, though only for the non-Xbox versions.

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  1. xbmc rocks by pak9rabid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    XBMC is the only reason I own an XBox. It's simply an amazing piece of software. I definitely look forward to trying it out on my Linux box...What would be really amazing would be XBMC for the 360 so that we could get true HD support.

    1. Re:xbmc rocks by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Microsoft doesn't care about engaging the community as long as they can imprison the community.

      It's a shame too, because there are lots of ways that they could embrace "freedom" that would win them lots of favor with the very customers they've spent all these years alienating. They could do lots of things like this, but they'd rather try to succeed with a stick than a carrot.

      Maybe after the guy with too many Y-chromosomes steps down Microsoft can go back to being part of the community rather than trying to hijack the community.

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  2. The Killer App by ahoehn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    XBMC really was the killer app for a modded 1st gen XBOX. I dropped a 120GB hard drive in mine, had it auto-sync with my video torrent folder, and had a brilliant little movie/tv show playing setup going on. It makes an Xbox do what Microsoft should have done with its Media Center Extender initiative.

    For something that was quasi-legal (if I remember you needed proprietary things from the Xbox developer's SDK to properly compile the source for the Xbox) it had a remarkably excellent UI. Things seemed to work quite well. It seems like a good thing to have some real competition in the media center market, particularly cross-platform open-source competition.

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    1. Re:The Killer App by Hatta · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I still watch nearly all my TV on my xbox. TVRSS with rtorrent, samba, and XBMC has made broadcast TV obsolete.

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