the xbox is basically just a pc. i believe its a celeron with an nvidia video card the interfaces are just usb with different plugs, ethernet card, ide with hard disks so throw a bunch of monkeys (or even better, hackers* with too much time) in a room with an xbox and some linux sources and sooner or later... viola xbox linux.
remember that linux is also on playstation2 (could also be on one) dreamcast and xbox as is netbsd etc. i believe sony helped get linux going on playstation2, but youll need to google it. the xbox is a powerpc with an ati card. its biggest problem is that it doesnt have a hard disk (unlike ps2 and xbox) Dean * note the use of the word hackers used correctly in this email. -----Original Message----- From: Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: SLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, May 06, 2004 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox >On Thu, May 06, 2004, Rick Welykochy wrote: >> Pardon my ignorance, but why did MS deploy the Xbox using Linux >> instead of one of their own operating systems, perhaps Windows CE? > >They didn't. As I understand it, the xbox runs something much like the >Win2K kernel. Since the xbox is largely known hardware with a custom >bios, Linux is installable on it if you utilise various tricks. > >> Is this a tacit admission by them that their own offerings are not up >> to scratch in the gaming dept? > >Evidently not. > >-Mary >-- >SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
