How to: Install Linux on your Xbox

Revitalise an unuused Xbox and make it productive again using linux. Read on.


It's a bit 'old-school' – since the Xbox 360 is now Microsoft's dominant video game console – but loading Linux on the original Xbox (popular circa 2002) makes sense because you can use an old dusty machine sitting in a corner somewhere and get more useful life out of it.

After all, the Xbox is still a viable PC with a Celeron processor, an NVIDIA GeForce 3 graphics card, a DVD drive, surround sound support, USB ports, Ethernet, a 10GB hard disk (on most systems) and 64MB of RAM.

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