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Boot a CD and Make Your X-Box Join the Cluster
jaromil writes "Last week at the Linux Expo UK in London the dyne:bolic distribution was shown to boot on a XBOX console automatically joining a cluster of other PCs on the fly, there is also an article on ZDNet UK covering the story." The article also discusses some of the issues with getting unsigned code to run on the X-Box.
Now, unless I'm mistaken, this has been possible for quite some time now. The only new part is that they're using it for a cluster, and commercial companies are considering doing the same. Of course, the article points out that this too has already been done with Sony PS2s.
The only 'news' here is that they're using an X-Box for the cluster.
In short, move along. Nothing to see here.
Cooper
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Not to sound rude, but If only microsoft would cooperate a little more with it
If they co-operate, people start buying xbox's (yay). The money isn't in selling the consoles, theyre already selling them at a loss. The money is in selling the games.
MS is -very- money motivated, selling their systems at a loss to make it back with the lucrative game sales, good idea.
Selling consoles that people can run linux on (their competition) without ever buying real xbox games? bad idea.
The xbox might have standard pc hardware in it, but as such, its not sold as a PC. It's a game platform, and thereby seperate from the normal world of pc's. MS doesnt have to do anything for the linux community, except laugh at us when we brag about violating copyrights.
Wouldn't it be cool is sco teamed up with ms to sue us for modding our xboxs? As if the linux community isnt being annoyed enough at this time.
Linux + Xbox = bad idea. It's all well and good that you can do it, but.. why would you want to?
Go out, buy a pc for a little more, and install linux.
Linux on a 1/2 assed device isnt super cool, its just dull.
- devils advocate btw
Welcome to the End
VT:
1100 x ~300W = 330kW
1 year running 24/7 at 5c/unit: $141,000
XBox: 52000 x ~100W = 5200kW
1 year running 24/7 at 5c/unit: $2,300,000
Well, the network connection in the xbox is a 10/100 that can do full duplex, and I have gotten about 10MB/sec transfer when FTPing files to it, sometimes less but I'm thinking it is more the hard drive than the network. (Network being Computer Switch Xbox)