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  From: Thiele, Nicholas Wayne - THINW002 <THINW002@students.unisa.edu.au>
  To  : Linux (E-mail) <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 10:55:23 +0930

RE: Linux on Xbox (or playstation)

I agree, I'd also rather support a company that officially supports Linux and
show them that there is a market for this.  If you do (or anyone on the list)
get a Linux kit let us know how you find it, I am sure everyone will be
interested. 

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/news.php3?nid=1451&tid=2 - Article about Linux PS2
kit in Australia.

PS. When I first brought up the subject of Linux on Playstation someone brought
up this interesting idea!

"*imagines an ISP running solely on PlayStation II's*"
 -David Lloyd [lloy0076@rebel.net.au]

-----Original Message-----
From: dcd [mailto:d_delyn@eml.cc]
Sent: Wednesday, 29 May 2002 17:36
To: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
Cc: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
Subject: Re: Linux on Xbox


I agree,

    I'd prefer to pay Sony, for the PS/2 who are prepared to officially 
support linux than Microsoft for another xbox to support their sales. ie 
Every sale to one side, is one less for the other.
Why else do you think their prepared to support a loss?

For someone who is into games and has a P/S already the $499 AU is a 
fairly cheap way of getting a  reasonable starting computer, the fact 
that they then start with linux, instead of having to be enlightened 
(substitute any other suitable word ),  is a major bonus in favour of this.

dcd


Anthony Symons wrote:

>On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 13:42, John Edwards wrote:
>
>>What's more interesting are some of the mod chips coming out for the
>>microsoft Xbox. It already has hard drive and Ethernet for something
>>like $399, and one of the xbox hacker groups has discovered a backdoor
>>bios hook to allow it to load arbitrary x86 code.
>>
>>In English, that means there's a strong possibility that it will be able
>>to run Linux, despite all the crypto requirements for booting the OS.
>>
>
>Hmm. Paying microsoft for hardware to run linux on? Even if it does save
>you money Im not sure if I like that idea :(
>
>Ant
>



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