I have an xbox media center and last weekend got linux/firefox running on it. When I turn it on it goes straight into the media center. I can click a button and it boots a lightweight linux and I get a desktop. I can run firefox and go on the web.
I bought myself a really neat wireless keyboard with a built in thumb mouse. The keyboard works, the mouse cursor moves around but it the mouse button's don't! It turns out you have to modify the linux kernel and recompile to click the f*cking mouse!!!!!! It works fine in Windows. Also apparantly in the 2.6 kernel this problem is fixed. However, the support for FATX filesystem (used by xbox) is not properly supported in linux 2.6 kernel and corrupts the partitions. So now what? -- I lose even more hair.
Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
