eop:television_and_home_theater:cable_boxes_and_dvrs
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Cable Boxes and DVRs
Comcast Cable Boxes
Operating Systems (MIPS)
Base Kernel, bloated
Linux 3.3 with Broadcom blobs hanging off it like tumors → BusyBox and friends → “X1 Platform” (Giant horrible JR2E app)
Good luck hacking this for anything. They don’t even publicly dispel the actual kernel version they use, only a custom number. However, it still does run Linux.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7j73mg/comcast_cable_boxes_run_linux/
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