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Xbox Receives Linux Mandrake 9.0

Posted by timothy on Monday October 7, 2002 @09:51PM from the nice-nice-nice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today the Xbox Linux Project announced that Xbox Linux Mandrake 9 has been released. This is the first complete Linux distribution for the Microsoft Xbox gaming console. A 350 MB installation CD of Xbox Linux Mandrake 9 is available for download free of charge from the Xbox Linux website."

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Re:Can you still play games? by ultrafunkula · 2002-10-08 00:00 · Score: 5, Informative

Ah, after a bit of research in the FAQs, I've found the answer to my question:

Will I still be able to play games once Linux is on my hard disk?
That depends on the solution you choose. If you run Linux through the XBE bootloader on an Xbox with a modchip, there's a dual-boot solution.
There are also "Live CD's" that make it possible possible to run Linux from a CD without having your hard disk modified at all.
If you use the replacement ROM method, you would have to install both ROMs in parallel to be still able to run games.