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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My gamecube by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 00:45 · Score: 0, Troll

Even though I'm disappointed with the games available for Gamecube, I can't see many people sacrificing a perfectly good game console so they can use it as a pretty limited server.

But since we're on the subject of Gamecube, can someone point me to some decent Gamecube titles? The only two I've found that I really enjoyed are Metroid Prime and the new Zelda.