News from Xbox-Linux circles are hearing of a new Mech Assault hack that has installer, uninstaller and integrates into the Microsoft dashboard. But there is more the hack integrated the font hack faultlessly and has clock fix protection inbuilt. This savegame exploit is only part of it, it installs a minilinux to the hard drive. When you boot up the dashboard with the hack installed, it works normally (except taking longer to boot) except that the XBOX LIVE menu option is replaced with LINUX. Choosing restore dashboard will run dashupdate.xbe without any hacks (other than to delete the linux hacks). It also patches the microsoft dash and renames the original fonts so the dash still works. Fully Xbox-Live compatible and games are playable just as normal.

just to clear up a mistake in the original post as it was only hot off the presse: "maxconsole is slightly wrong it doesn't really have the clock fix basically, if the clock is dead, the dashboard's own clock function will bring up the usual screen there are some unsolvable problems when the source is GPL maybe someone can fix them if you boot the system with a DVD video inserted from the start, it won't work properly if you have no dongle, it will go into a reset loop if you have a dongle, the DVD will play, but the "Display" button will crash the xbox because it tries to display a font my code never executes so i couldn't figure them out there is a simple way to handle this if you want to play DVDs, wait until the dashboard has fully loaded before inserting it since my code will have control, it will play DVDs properly. before inserting the disk i mean. another case that is crashy is if you try to boot an xbox game from an invalid region but again, waiting until my code has control will work (IE, display the proper error) i want to release the source as soon as i can safely because there are some problems i know about that i'd like fixed but as it stands now, there seems to be no bugs that cause a fatal problem, such as an infinite reset loop without a disk inserted i want to test it on a lot of systems so that we know we won't destroy people's xbox's that's about it"