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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. Re:But... by SeanTobin · · Score: 1, Troll
    The obvious question is if they can get an Windows XBox Emulator working within Windows2000 on the Xbox.
    And the not-so-obvious question is will the games run faster because of the improved kernel/software ;)
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  2. Wow, what sci-en-tists. by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 0, Troll

    They got a PC-based platform to run a PC based operating system inside another PC based operating system.

    I do that now with my Athlon 2000 MP.

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  3. Re:wow.. running for 6 weeks! by r3nt0n · · Score: 0, Troll

    Easy to say they had been running for years, when their software/hardware HAD been out for years. If it was a press release for Windows NT, it wouldn't have been out for years, let alone months in a final release state.

  4. Re:for Pete's Sake! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    everyone can see it fine. you're the one complaining, you buy them a tv you jackass.

  5. heh... by mraymer · · Score: 0, Troll

    So, is it Xbox Linux or Xbox GNU/Linux? Heh, I feel like a troll for asking that. Better mod me down into oblivion.

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