GNU/Linux bootable CD on XBOX: dyne:bolic

jaromil writes "The dyne:bolic bootable CD distribution is almost getting to its final 1.0 release, includes a whole bunch of multimedia applications making it easy to edit and stream audio and video, encrypt mails, share p2p and of course play games, all with a fancy GNUStep desktop. download the 1.0 alpha 5 ISO (~350Mb) and try it on your PC or XBOX!" One more reason to mod an xbox.

Re:FIRST POST!!!!

[/ASCII]

Most modern mod-chips come with the option of switching to the original BIOS instead. Microsoft can still check you HDD for strange-looking software, and out of spec HDDs, but the bios mod should be fine.

Re:To all Linux supporters, This is our chance.

[the_consumer]

Linux [ps2linux.com] has been available [playstation2-linux.com] on the PS2 [playstation.com] for quite a while now.

Mod Chip?

[siskbc]

I emailed dozens of my friends, and I will attempt to introduce them to Linux in a way thats safe

Um...you DO realize they have to mod the box first, right? Your friends are all handy with a soldering iron, I take it?

For your girl...

[lpret]

Actually, I remember reading an article about in Japan where chicks were using the playstation controller to, um...well, dual-shock themselves.

Re:Why the name dyne:bolic?

[Anonymous Coward]

Used to be named "dyabolique" but it infringed on another project's name. So they added a colon to give it street cred.

Re:DVD playback?

[rasteri]

I'd really like to use my Xbox as a region free DVD player....two 'League of Gentlemen' DVDs that only get used on my TiPB :-\

Just install Xbox Media Player [xboxmediaplayer.de], possibly EvolutionX too.

Re:For your girl...

[bjschrock]

There is a game that comes with an extra "controller". There's an article about it here. [216.239.53.100] (Google cache).

What?

[serial frame]

I'm afraid that distribution does not use GNUstep [gnustep.org]; Window Maker and GNUstep, though intertwined in certain ways, are completely different projects altogether.

Window Maker a GNUstep desktop does not make, I'm afraid.

Re: work with 007 hack

[dhm4]

sure it will. just set the write enable pin of the xbox-flash, run the savegame & flash the bios the way you like it.
there is already a new savegame exploit for the M$-game MechAussault, that also updates the xbox-live runtime. perhaps the dashboard is exploitable too & linux gets _independent_ from a modchip or hardware modifications.

Re:To all Linux supporters, This is our chance.

[X86Daddy]

Here's a good way to have a bootable Linux CD at all times, ready to demo whenever the opportunity shows:

Buy a Bootable Business Card from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Shop [eff.org]! You get to spread the word of Linux while sending $5 towards a wonderful cause!

Re:wtf? Mpeg encoder and video-in recorder?

[henele]

The AV port on the back is labled 'Input/Output', I don't know if that just means sync signals come in or something useful to a MythTV style project...

Any /.er out there got the schematics? Or are they also hidden by the DMCA?

Re:Mod Chip?

[Iscariot_]

Soldering not required. Check out The Matrix [matrixmodchip.com].

Re:wtf? Mpeg encoder and video-in recorder?

[Troed]

No video-in there.

Re:Not true

[zog karndon]

hell even a new file system was involved so most people cant even access their old files.

What are you smoking, and can I get some?

XP runs on FAT32 as well as NTFS; it also has a filesystem conversion program to (transparently) convert FAT32 (or FAT16, I suppose, but I don't know anyone who still uses it).

I've upgraded a half-dozen Win98 systems to XP, and every last one of them can access their old files.

Re: work with 007 hack

[robotbrain]

It's on the front page of xbox-scene [xbox-scene.com] right now and here [xboxhacker.net] and you can download it here [xbox-scene.net]

Answer about dyne

[burgburgburg]

From http://www.dyne.org/faq.php [dyne.org]:

One dyne is the force required to cause a mass of one gram to accelerate at a rate of one centimeter per second squared in the absence of other force-producing effects; A dyne is 100.000 times a newton.
It's a concept defined by Heraclitus, a greek philosopher born at Ephesus around 540 B.C., which once also said that "much learning does not teach understanding".
Panta rei.

Re:Still the question: Why?

[crashfrog]

Every time one of these "Linux on Xbox" stories pop up, I ask: Why?

Well, here's an idea: because I own one, and I'd like to fuck around with it, just for fun.

Surprisingly, some people actually buy the Xbox because they like the games for it. I for one wouldn't spend the exact same money on a PS2 that doesn't come with a hard drive or space for more than two controllers. And I've been a Bungie games fan for almost forever and now the Xbox is the only way to play them.

So, since I have the thing, why not see what else it can do? Maybe be a platform to view internet fansubbed anime on?