14 DAY TRIAL // Xbox Media Center (XBMC for short) is a media player for the MS Xbox game-console. XBMC can play music, videos and display images from the Xbox's DVD drive, its internal hard-drive, a local network, USB flash drive or from the internet. It also functions as a replacement dashboard to launch Xbox games off the hard-disk drive.
Some developers from the Team-XBMC have recently begun porting the XBMC to Linux and OpenGL, by making use of the SDL toolkit. If they manage to do this, the result would be a port of XBMC that takes in all features from the Xbox version of XBMC. For that, Team-XBMC demands help from the volunteer developers. I shall also mention here that XBMC is free and open source software and the source code is distributed under the GNU GPL and that the XBMC project is not produced or endorsed whatsoever by Microsoft.
Anyone interested in joining this initiative is welcome to contribute to the project' sTo-Do list, no matter how much experience he/she previously had with XBMC. The team also makes available a wiki article in order to give a starting point to all those interested in volunteering. Another aspect that is worth mentioning would be that the port project is still in early development, therefore the end-users are not yet able to test and play with it, and there is no ETA for when this would be ready.
Those interested in joining the development of such a Linux port are also welcomed on the XBMC-Forum developers discussion on the XBMC recruiting developers for Linux port thread. According to the Team-XBMC, the source code structure uses a modular design and according to them there are enough modules/libraries to keep a wide skill-level range of developers busy in the porting of them all. The Xbox hardware is not left aside, XBMC is intended to be a cross-platform software application and to support both the Xbox and normal computers.