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Xbox Linux Project Gets $200,000 Developer Lure
News A software development project aimed at getting the Linux operating system to run on Xbox received a boost on Monday, when an unnamed donor agreed to pay successful contributors a total of $200,000 (about £140,000).
[July 2, 2002, 16:21]
Xbox Linux Team Issues Antitrust Plea
News A group of Linux programmers has sent an open letter to the European Commission, asking the EU's executive arm to protect their efforts to build Linux software for Microsoft's Xbox video game console.
[March 7, 2003, 13:50]
Xbox Linux Group Seeks Microsoft Seal Of Approval
News The group of programmers working to run Linux on Microsoft's Xbox video game console is seeking the software giant's seal of approval. In an open letter sent to Microsoft, the organisers of the Xbox Linux Project requested that the software giant...
[February 20, 2003, 11:30]
Xbox Gets Linux System Software
News A group of programmers seeking to put Linux on Microsoft's Xbox video gaming console has created the software that will eventually replace the machine's built-in system software. The Xbox Linux Project, drawing on the skills of programmers in the...
[July 29, 2002, 13:04]
Linux For Xbox Released
News A hacker group specialising in software for Microsoft's Xbox has announced the release of the first full version of Linux for the game console. The Xbox Linux Project selected version 9 of French company Mandrake's release of the open-source...
[October 9, 2002, 10:45]
Xbox Transformed Into Linux PC
News That is the effect, at least, of a breakthrough by the Xbox Linux Project, which on Monday said it had managed to boot a version of the Linux operating system on the Xbox. Michael Steil, the project maintainer, said that Xbox Linux is less about...
[September 3, 2002, 13:38]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback All I can say is that I can not wait for Xbox Linux 2.0! I couldnt believe it when I had found that they took linux off my well paid hardware through a what it said on the screen was a very important update!
[July 29, 2004, 0:28]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback The Linux project (in regards to the Xbox) was owned. Can't wait to hear the 'smarter than you' crowd cry. Big freakin deal. So MS can tell what game you are playing. Good lord people.
[September 18, 2003, 3:57]
Xbox Clusters Up At Linux Expo
News On the stand of a multimedia-oriented Linux distribution called dyne:bolic, operating system author and maintainer Jaromil -- the moniker he prefers to be known by -- was demonstrating a hacked Xbox that can be used to offload processing tasks...
[October 10, 2003, 10:30]
New Xbox Security Cracked By Linux Fans
News The Xbox Linux group that Green works with, along with a group working for the mod chip company Xecuter, both managed to exploit this weakness to gain control of the machine. A group of independent programmers says it has managed to crack a new...
[October 14, 2002, 16:26]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback why would they do that crap ive been using linux for almost a dam year on my xbox and its been helping me alot not only for modding (which i admit is bad) but also helps me figure out stuff much easier and helps me run programs that id like to...
[October 4, 2005, 2:28]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback Linux really work well on nearly everything, (including Xbox). Microsoft sell the Xbox at a very discounted price. The Xbox is not that great a computer but it is cheap. They know that in the Linux world gaming is still new, they can't afford to...
[October 15, 2003, 4:05]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback A Linux-Xbox user is not breaking any law (except perhaps the DMCA, but that is US only! [Quote] Bahaha. Come on people. Did you really think Microsoft would let this slide? It's well within their right to do whatever they want to there freaking...
[September 17, 2003, 17:13]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback Shouldn't be using no nasty Microshaft Xbox anyway! Xbox.BAH! If you wanna run GNU/Linux, do so on yer 'puter or better still, Playstation 2 has a Linux developer kit. That's what you get! Better still.ROLL YER OWN!
[September 18, 2003, 4:29]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback If it were illegal then where are all the lawsuits from M$ against the Xbox Linux FLAW to manipulate the XBox to do what they wanted it to do. Nothing illegal was done by the Linux users. Anonymous Gamer:
[September 19, 2003, 16:48]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback If you're too cheap to buy games and to save your Linux tinkering for your PC's, then you don't deserve to own an Xbox. A Linux-Xbox user is not breaking any law (except perhaps the DMCA, but that is US only!
[September 25, 2003, 21:57]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback Ill be damned if I buy an xbox when I can just run Xbox games from my computer. The way I see it putting linux on a microsoft product is like AHH god what are you people thinking don't buy microsoft.
[January 18, 2004, 5:11]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback When you purchase your xbox, xbox 360, or pc one of the selling points though often overlooked is that it automatically downloads/updates. Do i have do i have this program or do i have that one, do i.Now with that said (because m$ will reply "you...
[June 15, 2006, 20:27]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback I don't have an xbox, but if I did, I'd be pissed off to find out that MS were deleting files I'd put on the computer that I'd bought without asking me. The question is, whose freakin hardware is it?
[October 11, 2003, 20:18]
Xbox Clusters Up At Linux Expo
Talkback Perhaps a good use of such an XBox cluster would be to determine the private key MS uses to sign code.
[October 14, 2003, 14:19]
