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Windows 2000 Runs On Xbox Under Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the oh-the-irony-of-life dept.

MBCook writes "Everybody's favorite Xbox hackers have got Linux running for roughly six weeks, and now it runs well enough to announce that Windows has been run inside Linux with common PC virtualization software. They even have a little video of it playing a MPEG 4 of The Matrix fullscreen!"

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  1. for Pete's Sake! by Naikrovek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Someone PLEASE get these people a decent TV, man! and a better camera! ;)

    Those photos would have a lot more impact on me if i could see them better. hehe these guys are doing great things but someone please donate a TV or bigger monitor or whatever they're using.

  2. Why is it so fascinating? by mocm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anytime someone gets another program running under
    xbox linux you get a new article on /..
    What is so surprising? Once you got the kernel with drivers for framebuffer, sound and usb running you could run almost any program that runs under ix86 linux.
    The next big news would be that 3d acceleration is running, so that you can run all those 3d games with reasonable speed.
    Anybody try the Xbox as a UT server yet? NWN server anyone?
    Ok, it's not easy to get Win2000 running with just 64MB.

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  3. Slashdot needs another topic category by irishkev · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN"