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Linux on Xbox One Step Closer?
RpiMatty1 writes: "Apparently the Linux Kernel has been booted on the Xbox. No mention of it on the Xbox-Linux Home page yet. Here is another posting of the same messages at Xboxhacker.net." I wonder if the recent security code change rules this particular development out for Xboxes purchased in the near future.
Seriously folks, do we need to give more money to the red devil?
Just the other day I was strolling around in fry's. I had just bought some KVM cables and I needed a gender changer when I saw the neatest thing I seen in a while. I don't remember the name but i'll try and be as detailed as possible...
There was this tiny mobo at fry's with a 800mhz CPU soldered on board. The thing couldn't have been bigger than a mousepad. It had video out, firewire, usb, bunch of other stuff on it.
The price?
Only $129!
I know a lot of people want to use the xbox as a cheap linux station, but seriously folks, everytime an xbox is purchased it goes back to satan himself.
Now even though this lil mobo/cpu thingy didn't have the latest nvidia chip, I could slap up to 2 pc100 dimms in there. It's a helluva lot smaller than an xbox. If I wanted a pretty injected plastic moulded case I could walk over to the next isle and grab a project box. (I was thinkin tap plastic acrylics)
So which would you rather have?
xbox (and you're bills bitch)+70 bucks for a mod chip
129 cpu mobo combo and some spare parts you got layin around the garage.
It's a something between a Coppermine PIII and a Celeron. Coppermine PIII has 8-way 256KB cache, Coppermine Celeron 4-way 128KB cache. The X-Box CPU is a 733Mhz (133Mhz FSB) Coppermine CPU with 128KB 8-way cache. So, it's neither a PIII nor a Celeron (Desktop Celerons also don't come in 133Mhz FSB versions, but mobile Celerons do. Still, mobile Coppermine Celerons also have 128KB 4-way cache).
mczak
I think that was my point. Next time, I'll make my sarcasm more obvious.
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The drive uses an extended function, often used on laptops, to not function fully until a passcode it sent to the drive. Once it is the drive acts normal.
As mentioned, this is the same as many laptop drives. Check out IBM and Toshiba's laptops with secure drives.
Sony is making money on the PS2 at $199, and Nintendo are breaking even on the GameCube at $149. [at this very moment, those two are more rapidly getting cheaper to produce than the Xbox]
it's in my head