It's been well over a year since the last stable release of XFedora. In fact, XFedora5 never made it out the door because of technical problems with the Anaconda installer. (Sadly, that bad boy was just too huge to run on an Xbox). I've spent much of the past year enjoying my recent relocation back to my hometown in Honolulu, Hawaii, and haven't really had much free time to hack on personal projects. From the looks of things, it seems that much of the steam in the Xbox-Linux effort is focused on the Xbox-360, or on the 2.4.x series Linux Kernel. Indeed, the last Xbox-Linux Kernel Patch was targeted against 2.6.16 -- a whole 3 levels behind the bleeding edge.

 To install Fedora Core onto your Xbox, all you need is an XFedora installer disc, an HTTP Media Source, and either an Xpad, or a USB keyboard. The installer will erase F: and G: (if it exists) and use all of that space for Linux. As an Advanced User Option, you can also instruct XFedora to use the entire disk (no more Game Save area) for Linux.

The XFedora Installer is the real, out-of-box Fedora Core installer (aka "Anaconda") running on your Xbox - only the minimum required of Xbox-specific patches are applied to get Fedora Core running. You'll find that this minimalist approach is by design, as it allows you to synchronize, update, and customize your Xbox as you would any other Fedora Core machine.