[TriLUG] Re: XBox
Chris Merrill
cmerrill at nc.rr.com
Thu Nov 15 13:33:58 EST 2001
Marty Ferguson said:
> It would be great if it could be hacked as a Linux host platform,
> after all, M$ is seriously subsidizing the expense of manufacturing
> XBox in hopes of recovering money later through software sales, as
> most game box companies have done in the past few years.
I must be missing something here...what, exactly, would be the point
of putting Linux on an XBox (besides "because it's there")?? Could
you still run the games on it? What else would you use it for?
Does it have DSP hardware on it that could make it useful as a
TiVo, for instance?
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Chris Merrill
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