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PostgreSQL Ported to GameCube, Linux Progressing
TheFuzzy writes "Hey folks, thought you'd like to know that the guys at Cybertec.at have succeeded in porting PostgreSQL 7.4.1 to the Nintendo GameCube. Now you, too, can turn your former video console into the world's most underpowered database server. And before anyone asks... the Windows port is coming real soon now, so be patient - it says something that the GameCube was easier to convert to than Windows, don't it?" Elsewhere in GameCube homebrew development, it looks like the GameCube Linux project is moving along quite swiftly, with "a 22 MB Debian base system image" now available, and an "ARAM block device driver" also created, now allowing 40mb of space for Linux to run in.
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"it says something that the GameCube was easier to convert to than Windows, don't it?"
Yes, it says your command of English is poor.
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Bacause XBox and PS2 DON'T have PostgreSQL.
That's why... muahahahaha... let the fanboy flamewars begin...
What, you play GAMES on your Game Cube?
That is sooooo passe...
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The big steps forward have been the exploitation of the PSO update mechanism to boot selfmade code and the reverse-engineering of the hardware that made the Linux port possible. Compiling a software package after that is mostly an excercise in masochism but nothing insanelygreat.
So yeah, I stand by my statement that trying to use a Gamecube as a database server is pointless especially if it must be backed by a storage server, eliminating the cost argument. I've been hacking on console hardware for about five years now, and while it's fun for the most part it is totally pointless and without purpose. So you know, fuck yourself, asshole.