Quoting Rasmus Wiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Joseph Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yeh, maybe I'm ignorant also?? What do you mean by Tivoization?? >> LinuxBios on set-top-boxes?? Hardware hacking?? Fill me in.... > > "Here's the source code for the stuff in your tivo. Feel free to > recompile it. Oh, by the way, the tivo will checksum the binary, so if > one single bit differs from the stock software, you won't be able to > install it in the tivo". > > /Rasmus
Oh, ok. I hate people/companies that suppress the open source concept. If your going to post the source code and it is not open source you might as well change you name to Micro####, if you know what I mean. So instead one could just develop a new bios so he/she would not have to deal with that checksum bs and be able to install their OS of choice. Thanks - Joe -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
