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.

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Re:Huh

[mwillems]

Eh, I have an amateur radio packet radio server running on a 486/33 with 16 MB RAM, so not much more than what was suggested here.

It runs RedHat 5.2 and has been running continuously and free of any errors for three years now. I had to reboot it once for Y2K hardware testing (turned out all was OK), and at that time I cleaned out the dust. I guess I need to dio this again some time in the coming year.

This PC is on a UPS and monitors two TNC's (terminal node controllers) connected to two radios. These radios talk AX.25 on VHF and UHF respectively, and keep me connceted to the 'net slowly but reliably when the cable connection goes down.

It also runs a radio bulletin board and hosts FTP and Apache.

Point being, a server can be dedicated to some sepcific tasks and very old hardware can do a great job, and Linux can be compiled to run clean and small, and is utterly reliable. I think if I had any memory leaks I'd know by now!

Michael VA3MVW