Ubuntu running on Xbox 360

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may not be easy to do but its a beginning none the less.

Cpasjuste has managed to get Ubuntu (comunity developed Linux-based operating system) running on the Xbox 360. It contains all the standard applications such as a WEB BROWSER, spreadsheet software, instant messaging software and more. To get it running King Kong is required as well as the vulnerable kernels. Read more about it here




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That opens a wide range of possibilities for Xbox 360.

After Linux running on the X360 u can even run windows using virtual machine.
 
^^ Lol in case you dont know, but xbox is used as a distributing computing nodes since a long time now. Run a search on anandtech there was this awesome article, which explained how it was cheaper to buy xbox's and run as as multiple servers rather then buying servers...
 
As a gaming purist, my opinion on such matters shouldn't be taken seriously at all.

I just don't understand why people treat consoles as tinker toy gadgets that must be exploited every which way. That's the sort of mentality thanks to which we now have the PS3. We can now see with our own eyes what happens when a Gaming machine strays too far from being just that. It's too pricey that people don't want it and it's too hard for developers to work with so we are only seeing more of them favoring it's competitor instead.
 
Ck Nish said:
Linux running on the X360 is about as useful as Linux running on the PS3.

Maybe if X360 can have its internal hard Drive replaced with a market bought Hard drive and have a very good USB interface (You can plug *any* USB keyboard/mouse/headset/etc) on the ps3, only then does it have the potential to rival ps3's official support for OtherOS. Otherwise, I don't see many people buying King Kong just to play Linux that won't run half as good as it does on Ps3.
 
Hotstuff said:
^^^very true, cos in terms of raw hadware, linux will run much better on PS3

it depends on weather we are able to access the gpu cores ,as of now there is no way to get hardware rendering in both Xbox 360 and PS3 installed Linux.
 
WRONG!!! As of right now, I find the X360 most attractive for it's games. Funny that people lose sight of what a console is actually about.
 
Ck Nish said:
WRONG!!! As of right now, I find the X360 most attractive for it's games. Funny that people lose sight of what a console is actually about.

Is it just me that read that "WRONG!!!" like Kevin Spacey says it in Superman returns?

Nish from now on you are a bald middle aged super villain in my head. :D
 
I don't give a damn whether ps3 or xbox is able to run linux.All i want to know is whether they can run windows vista or atleast windows xp?? If so can i play PC games on it??
 
it will not be able to because xp and vista have not ben ported to the power pc processors. Both the linux running on these are power pc linux variants
 
Nish from now on you are a bald middle aged super villain in my head

Why not! I'm supposed to be the villain around these parts. Except now i'll get to stab people with shards of kryptonite too.
 
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