Linux on X-Box???

[Fett101]

That's how it is for consoles.

[ July 04, 2003: Message edited by: Fett101 ]

[Great_Satan]

Here's another link.

http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=702&mode=thread&order=0

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by Great_Satan:
Here's another link.

http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=702&mode=thread&order=0

I'm confused... you go to this link and it tells u the exploit is at this link:
http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/010895.html

then u go there and it tells u nothing.... Fuck I want this exploit.  I am just hoping that the XBMP is changed to use this exploit.  I don't wanna modify my hardware.

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:


I'm confused... you go to this link and it tells u the exploit is at this link:
http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/010895.html

then u go there and it tells u nothing.... Fuck I want this exploit.  I am just hoping that the XBMP is changed to use this exploit.  I don't wanna modify my hardware.

nm I found it.. readin it right now

[xbsd]

consoles are for dumbs gamers.


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[ August 28, 2003: Message edited by: xbsd ]

[Fett101]

quote:Originally posted by xbsd:
consoles are for dumbs gamers.
[ August 28, 2003: Message edited by: xbsd ]

Wow... just Wow.

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
They may be crap for desktop computers, but we're talking about Beowulf clusters here. Besides, I doubt that the Xbox is any better than those machines, no matter how crappy they are.

I bet the XBox is at least 3 times what those walmart special Linux computers are. The XBox uses a 733mhz Intel(I think PIII) CPU. A NVidia GFX chipset and a modern PIII chipset that runs in at least ATA66(maybe ATA100).

Those Walmart specials run on a shitty, outdated ATA33 only chipset. If I remember correctly, they use a Via C3 CPU(a 1ghz C3 is slower than a 500mhz Celeron PPGA/Pentium 2 core) and the video card is not anywhere near the performance of a GeForce 3+(like the XBox's NVidia card).

If it were my desicion I'd go for the XBox.

[ August 28, 2003: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

[Laukev7]

Fair enough for the processor, but I doubt the graphic card is much of an issue when it comes to clusters.

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7: Defender of Canada:
Fair enough for the processor, but I doubt the graphic card is much of an issue when it comes to clusters.

Good point.

[hm_murdock]

but hey, just think... you got a cluster going, and you wanna bust out with some DOA3 (the real game, not cheesy X-TREME VOLLEYBALL) or some STAR WARS you can fire it up.

see, that's why the Ecks Baachs is decent, because it has a STAR WARS GAME.

Even MS can't keep dudes from STAR WARS

[idlepython3]

consoles are for...CHEAP gamers.  i'm cheap, don't have money to spend on a computer to run games.  most of the good games require windows anyway.  if there is a way to play windows games on linux i don't know.  macs have a lot of games now too, but who has the money to buy a mac?  i sure don't.  i got an xbox at the base exchange for $189 with two controllers and two games.  now you can't tell me that's worse than paying a grand or more for a windows running computer with enough hardware to run the same games that an xbox does for only about 200 bucks.  its a compromise.  i still hate microsoft, but i still gotta play games.  

i rant on, still ignorant.  all i know is what i know; don't hate me, help me.

[mushrooomprince]

This is old news.  I would probably go out and by a used xbox just to put linux on it.

Wow, don't you think that would really qualify me as a super geek ?

[hm_murdock]

it's okay 'cos you could play STAR WARS

[ravuya]

quote:Originally posted by ArmTheHomeless:
lol, they actually already have one for ps2.  u can only install software from the website though.

Well, you have to buy the kit from Sony (which has a hard drive, fancy-man VGA cables and a whole pile of other crap) and then put up with their obtuse restrictions on the use of your own hardware (no use of the CD/DVD drive, etc.). The only thing that would make it up to me is that you can get the manuals for all of the gadgets inside the PS2's graphics chip, albeit in PDF form on a CD that the PS2 can't even read.    Other than that, it's a $400 128-bit PC running Linux (and not very quickly, either).

Hopefully that will change now that somebody got Gentoo working on it.