Gamecube Linux Port Announced, In Progress

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Gamecube Linux Port Announced, In Progress

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @12:39AM from the teh-console-domination dept.

NiteStar writes "A group of people from the homebrew scene and Xbox Linux have now started a new project to port Linux to the Nintendo Gamecube. A small preview version has already been released, it's a small application that draws Tux the penguin on the GameCube screen. The roadmap explains a small client will run on the Gamecube, so the 'GameCube could be used as a desktop computer, which stores its data on a server on the network. The GameCube has a CPU that is powerful enough to decode common multimedia data like MPEG-4/DivX and MP3. It can serve as a display unit for content stored on a server'."

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Next Gen... by TiMac · 2004-01-20 00:41 · Score: 4, Insightful

By the time this is finished enough to be "useful" the next generation of hardware will be out or imminent....why not think of this stuff when the hardware is new? Xbox Linux crew did...
But now the Xbox 2, PS3, and GameCube successor (name?) are looming, so....how about waiting til then, and starting on those immediately?

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1. Re:Next Gen... by Xpilot · 2004-01-20 00:44 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  By the time this is finished enough to be "useful" the next generation of hardware will be out or imminent....why not think of this stuff when the hardware is new? Xbox Linux crew did...
  
  Perhaps, so that old "obsolete" hardware continues to be "useful"? Besides, I wouldn't want to install Lunix on my Gamecube if it were brand spanking new, I'd be using it to play games.
  
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2. Re:Next Gen... by lambent · 2004-01-20 02:57 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  What's the point?
  
  What the hell was the point in porting UNIX to a x86 architechture? Isn't that that chip that was based on chips originally used to control ballistic missiles back in the 70s?
  
  What the hell was the point of emulating windows apps on unix? You geeks whined and whined and got your own OS; why don't you get your own freakin' software, too?
  
  What the hell was the point of ...
  
  oh just fsck it.
  
  They did it because it was there. Proprietary hardware and software are the Mt. Everests of the geek.
  
  I, for one, look forward to my new thin-client multimedia center.