I just put this up here b/c it was not already. I am not saying its good or bad, it just is.
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This weekend, a group announced the progress of their attempt to run Linux on the video-game system. And the bad news for Microsoft is that the method is perfectly legal.




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According to an article published this week in ZDNet, the programmer from Germany Michael Steil has managed to make progress toward his goal of running Linux on Microsoft's Xbox console. Although the software giant has been catching all the "Xbox hackers" with pressure from its lawyers, this time the method is said to be totally legal.

Steil has started to talk about the new application called "Linuxpreview," which should get the status of first application to run on Xbox without using tools from the official Xbox Software Development Kit (SDK). The application is also one of the first to work on the transformation of the Xbox into a Linux-based PC, informed ZDNet.

For the joy of the Linux community, LinuxPreview makes the famous penguin appear on the Xbox start-up screen (picture) and advises that Xbox Linux is "Coming Soon." The information about the application was found in the project led by Steil, called Xbox Linux Project. The German programmer told the website through email that Linuxpreview was a "small application," but that it represented much since it is the first to show "that it is possible to write an application that has not been developed with Microsoft's SDK and does not contain any Microsoft code."