Xbox 007 Linux hack laid out for all to see

THE XBOX IS ONLY a few short steps away from becoming the LinuXbox. We reported on the 007 Xbox hack a short while ago. Now someone has written a step-by-step guide to making your Xbox switch to Linux without a mod chip.

Let's be fair here and get the nasty bit out in the open straight away: there is some soldering involved. But it's easy soldering, just connecting two sets of jumpers together. And it means you can flash a new BIOS onto the machine.

We caught sight of the links on Slashdot and have given the tutorial a quick once over. It's all fairly straight forward though definitely not for the faint of heart. There're quite a few things in there that caused a wince, such as hot plugging IDE drives. But it all looks like it will work.

The relentless hacking of the Xbox can have only one final outcome. Sooner or later the system is going to be well and truly hacked. It can only be a matter of time before LinuXbox is a reality. µ

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