QUOTE(jxoxn21 @ Apr 13 2007, 05:27 PM)
I don't have any understanding as to why most of you are going to buy a big hdd, or start soldering a serial, or go as far as buying another 360 with a lower kernal version lol. Unless you're a developer who has enough knowledge to find more exploits or find a way to boot backups off the hdd; this exploit is way too new and serves you no purpose. Tomorrow they will find a way to boot this on every kernal version and release xbmc360 that will work on every 360 and you wasted hundreds of dollars on another system lol. I have kernal 4532 with a hitachi drive, don't get me wrong it's REALLY cool and a cheap desktop computer. But for me, that's about it lol. I could browse the net and talk on mIRC (same thing I do on my Dell with XP)
My point is, give it time to evolve into something big before you spend all of your allowance you got from mommy and daddy on something that's going to be completely obsolete tomorrow. Patience is a virtue and will save you $$ lol.
My 2 cents
Some people (like me) do this stuff as a hobbie. Also by doing this I'm forcing myself to learn linux, which is something I've avoided for years as I've never seen a point (windows works just fine for everything I need to do), but I'm glad I'm doing it since I'm learning linux if anything (and yeah I know I could install linux on a PC, but anybody can do that, not everyone can run it on a 360, and very few can ATM).
And now that I've installed Ubuntu on my HDD I can lay in the bed and use IRC and a browser (without changing my settings everytime I start, like when using the gentoo live disc), that's something I can't do cause both my PC's HAVE to stay downstairs.