[ILUG] Xbox as a cheapo Linux box?

[Martin Donlon]

While this was possible with early xbox devkits(a standard edhat install
would work) the early dev kits were essentially just a PC. The retail
Xbox has hardware protection against his kind of thing. I'm not saying
its impossible, but hardware modifications may be required.

The final devkits did have a usb port on the back but I'm not sure if
this is on the retail versions, however the xbox controller ports can be
converted to usb ports with a simple £5-ish adaptor which means the
keyboard problem is probably the least of your worries.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:28:25PM +0000, John A. Kinsella wrote:
> It just occurred to me that MS's new XBox game console - given that it is
> (I understand) just a custom PC and given that it has to be relatively
> cheap to compete with Playstation 2 etc - might be "convertable" to use as
> a Linux (or even MS Win*) box.
> 
> Obviously keyboard would need to be fitted. Is that an insuperable problem
> and are there more fundamental problems?
> \end{Don't hit me, I wear contacts}

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Martin
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