Hotel Royal in Munich decided to use Xboxes running Linux as set-top-boxes in its hotel rooms. Changiz, the owner, asked me to help him modify some Xboxes (Hardware Method), so that they can install a small Linux distribution with Freevo (http://freevo.sourceforge.net) on it.

First I modified one Xbox with the Software Method. He liked it, but decided that the Hardware Method might be a better choice. So he bought five more Xboxes, and we (Changiz, Basti, me) modified all six Xboxes by putting Cromwell onto them.

On December 1st, Changiz told me that he had bought another 10 Xboxes and asked me to help them modify them. So one day later, the biggest (private) Xbox modding party took place.