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GNU/Linux bootable CD on XBOX: dyne:bolic
jaromil writes "The dyne:bolic bootable CD distribution is almost getting to its final 1.0 release, includes a whole bunch of multimedia applications making it easy to edit and stream audio and video, encrypt mails, share p2p and of course play games, all with a fancy GNUStep desktop. download the 1.0 alpha 5 ISO (~350Mb) and try it on your PC or XBOX!" One more reason to mod an xbox.
would this work with the 007 Hack?
Mike
Just in case they figured out how to foil current mod chips this time. I still would prefer to use my Xbox for online gaming *gasp* than as a Linux box.
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It's quite invigorating browsing interactive pr0n with the Xbox controls.
sweeeeeeeeeeet.
Mom says my
SCO sues Microsoft because the X-Box is "capable of illegally running SCO IP"
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Why cant we try to use Wine or something like it to trick the Xbox into running the Microsoft gaming live software from withinn Linux?
Second, if its done right people might use Xbox Linux, if its useful, it depends on how its done. Overall though I'd use it to promote Linux, as a marketing technique.
Linux needs marketing, so that when the time comes a year or two from now, when Longhorn is released, Linux can take the market or at least be competitive, people have to actually know what Linux is though, as of right now people either dont know what it is, or they believe a bunch of myths about it being a hackerOS.
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It isn't that we have to introduce *gamers* to Linux. It's that we have to introduce *game developers* to linux. Gamers don't write games [well some may but most don't].
If you build it, they will come, etc, etc.
Same can be said for hardware manufacturers. Some working CMPCI drivers would kick ass too.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
would be interesting to see what xine could do on this platform. maybe any xbox could be turned into a full-featured dvd player (including menu support) that way?
time is a funny concept
Linux has been available on the PS2 for quite a while now.
"If you're thinking what I'm thinking, you're right." -
MicroSoft XBox: $169.00
Mod Chip: $30.00
CD to burn the latest distro to: $0.20
Using the above system to call MicroSoft Tech Support via VoIP to complain about how bad KDE looks on a 20" black-and-white TV: PRICELESS.
-JT
Me: If you don't like Microsoft, why buy their game system.
You: They lose money on all of their systems.
Me: Even if they lose money that doesn't mean that they sell them for below variable cost. You are just helping recover fixed cost.
You: I don't understand your fancy moon language!
Me: Why not get a Lindows computer?
You: The X-Box has better hardware!
Me: It has like 48 megs of ram.
You: It has a nice graphics card!
Me: Fine, it has a nice graphics card.
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Um...you DO realize they have to mod the box first, right? Your friends are all handy with a soldering iron, I take it?
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By contrast the Xbox may not have a 128 bit processor, but it does have a 733MHz one, and it has 64MB of ram, which is still well on the lean side but more than twice as useful as the 32MB in the PS2. In the $130 price for a used console plus another $30 for a memory card with a serial interface, you can hack that mofo and have what ends up being a much more open system than the PS2. That might not be intentional, but it's still more useful.
The only edge PS2 linux has over Xbox linux is the lack of a need for hacking, but it's still cheaper to buy a hacked Xbox than it is to buy a PS2 with the Linux kit.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Actually, I remember reading an article about in Japan where chicks were using the playstation controller to, um...well, dual-shock themselves.
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I see it first and foremost as a very efficient way of introducing people to linux without first having to convinve them that they need to repartition their box and install a new boot loader ("huh? boot loader?"), let alone install linux. With Knoppix etc. you can demo linux to someone in 2 minutes instead of 2 hours.
It could also be useful if you do contracting of any sort and would like to work on linux instead of you-know-what (you'd need a USB pen drive or the like for your data).
OK, so turning my XBox into a Tivo with the aid of a modchip, a larger hard-drive and this bootcd would be great, but for one obvious thing. Where on earth is the video-in they plan to use this with?
Similiarly, there is no audio-in for the sound recorders.
And Blender is a nightmare of a gui in the first place, even when you've got a keyboard and mouse...
At the end of the day, an Xbox version of KnoppixMAME would probably be more useful, I feel. Still, its an interesting experiment.
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You're one step close to becoming a PC! Woot!
Here's a good way to have a bootable Linux CD at all times, ready to demo whenever the opportunity shows:
Buy a Bootable Business Card from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Shop! You get to spread the word of Linux while sending $5 towards a wonderful cause!