All Things Microsoft > Microsoft Hardware
Linux on X-Box???
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.
--- End quote ---
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.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[*] Previous page
Go to full version