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PostgreSQL Ported to GameCube, Linux Progressing

Posted by simoniker on from the mega-geek dept.

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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  1. Life of the Party by happyhippy · · Score: 3, Informative

    If the levels are smaller (no loads needed) than Thief 2's brilliant level 'Life of the Party' the game is going to suck shit. Fuck you and your load mist.

  2. Reminds me of Oracle. by torpor · · Score: 5, Informative

    I once visited a friend on the Oracle campus in the 90's, and noticed that in a whole slew of cubicles, programmers had Nintendo 64 setups. It seems they were porting Netscape to N64 back then, and I always wondered how weird it was for Oracle to be involved in that at first.

    I wonder whatever happened to that project. Clearly it never saw the light of day, but they did have Netscape up and running on those boxes.

    Now it seems things have come full circle, in a sort of twisty klein bottle kind of way ...

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  3. Re:Needs a Hard drive hack. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It would be nice if "somehow" , someone found a way of attaching a harddrive to a game cube.

    That's most unlikey... NFS works though...

  4. Re:Why? by damiam · · Score: 2, Informative

    XBox, being a regular x86 system, has just about any DB you want to throw on it, including Postgres, MySQL, Firebird, DB2, and even Oracle.

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  5. Re:Why? by antime · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dude, unless you plan on storing your whole database in RAM or on a memory card there's very little point in using the Cube as a database server. The machine's network connection is also limited (by the bus the NIC is connected to) so its use even as a frontend is questionable. Hack value, but not any practical value.