Attention X-BOX owners! Now it is possible to install and use Linux Mandrake in it, and use it as a normal computer!

[Wingznut]

I would think that it would be much easier to build a Linux box for about the same price.

Of course, it wouldn't be as cool as an Xbox. Probably not the same graphics power either.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Pretty cool.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

This is cool if you already have an Xbox, but I can't see running out and grabbing one just because of this.

NForce mobo - $65
Athlon XP 1600 - $55
128 MB RAM $30
40 GB HD - $65
12X DVD-ROM - $30

That's the price of an Xbox and modchip right there. Grab a cheap case & power supply, maybe a TV tuner card and/or remote, upgrade the video if you have games in mind, and you've got something that will do everything a modded Xbox will and more for about the same amount of money.

 

[Shockwave]

Wow, thats pretty cool.......
i may have to get an XboX now

 

[vegetation]

Or for those who don't want to bother fixing a system up, just buy the $299 walmart special. Faster system, better specs, hacking not required.

Graphcs card would be irrelevant since either system would be too sluggish for running xwindows.

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
This is cool if you already have an Xbox, but I can't see running out and grabbing one just because of this.

NForce mobo - $65
Athlon XP 1600 - $55
128 MB RAM $30
40 GB HD - $65
12X DVD-ROM - $30

That's the price of an Xbox and modchip right there. Grab a cheap case & power supply, maybe a TV tuner card and/or remote, upgrade the video if you have games in mind, and you've got something that will do everything a modded Xbox will and more for about the same amount of money.