Hacking Linux onto your 360 just got a wee bit easier
By Paul Miller 
posted Mar 30th 2007 6:42PM
posted Mar 30th 2007 6:42PM
Once again, we're a far cry from PS3-Linux-easy, but those 360 kids seem rather hard to dissuade. The latest development on the XeLL bootloader front is that you no longer need a serial cable hooked up for executing the boot loader, all you need is a 360 set up for running burned DVDs, a modified version of the King Kong disc -- you'll want the original game, Windows and a DVD burner to get that together -- and of course a Live CD with XeLL and your Linux distro all prepped to go. By now we're sure we don't need to tell you that this is limited to those lucky 4532 and 4548 kernels, but if you've got all of the above ingredients, plus a little bit of patience and complete disregard for warranty voidance, it looks like Linux on the 360 is within your reach at last. Peep a video after the break of the previous version of XeLL doing its thing. 
Oh man, you totally wasted that "wee bit easier" line on 360... you should have waited until they hacked the Wii.
Hacking that would be a Wii bit difficult.
What's amusing about all of this is that Microsoft brought it on themselves by crippling the media playback capabilities of the 360.
If the had supported QT, AVI, DivX, XviD, etc from day one (or provided a way to add playback codecs for those people who wanted them) and allowed streaming from a standard SMB network share - I suspect many of those people clamouring for a way to run unsigned code would be happy...
Personally, the only thing I want to see on the 360 is XBMC (to support HD content that the Xbox1 XBMC can't handle).
Using programs like TVersity to act as media center for your PC while running something like ffdshow to decode still turns out pretty decent on the 360 as long as your source medium is high resolution.
Personally I don't mind it too much because it saves me from voiding the warranty and hacking up a new drive to store all my files on. The downside for slower systems is that it decodes on the fly with the PC, so unless you're running a dual core you might notice some lag.
For me so far I haven't had any problems using this method, media - computer - tversity detected as it connects to my router and finds my system.
How is the performance on this? I might pick up a used one just to play around with.
is it just me or does the performance look really crappy?
It's just you.
OMG it's liek Xbox 360 Batter!
Am I the only one who finds it strange that the 360 is running Edubuntu?
you know i seriously love how people wanna put linux on everything, and I think it awesome! Its the best of both worlds really, linux and the 360!
by the way i just started a new website. http://www.craftymongoose.com, check and give critism. thnks
I wonder why MSFT will not sell for e.g. $25 Linux Live DVD for Xbox? Just like they sell games now. Linux as game ;-)
That way they can keep many hacker happy - and also make some nickel on sales.
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