[plug] Xbox linux

[John Knight]

I was just looking at that yesterday, a cheap P3 700 with a great sound 
chipset and video capabilites....... If you can get a nice LCD going and a 
portable power source, you can have a lovely alternate PC there, great for 
playing the old Japanese anime divxs on the bus, eh?

>
>http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/articles.php?aid=1&sub=windows%202000
>
>These guys are good value..
>
>They have had Suse8 and Mandrake 9.0 running on the Xbox..
>
>If thats not enough, to prove they had control of they h/w, they ran win2k
>_inside_ linux, and then ran an mpeg4 movie at full screen within the 
>win2k!
>
>Apparently there is 2 ways to get linux running. Either as a "dual boot",
>where games can still be played as MS intended, or a hd blat where the MS
>code is replaced with a Linux disro.. Personally, the idea of NOT buying MS
>games after getting MS subsidised hardware has an appeal.
>
>Another bit i read.. The hard disk is locked by a cryptographic algorthm
>sending a command to the IDE hardware. They worked out how it worked, 
>hacked
>it, and it now happens faster than before (less iterations of the 
>algorithm)
>using a made up secret code....
>
>Some of the bits on the web page were written in MS office with win2k 
>within
>linux, some were written using OpenOffice.org within Linux, on the Xbox..
>
>Good Show that.
>
>Garry  8^)==


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