New uses for old Xboxes

Posted by tadelste on Oct 1, 2005 8:09 AM EDT
p2p news view / p2pnet; By Bill Thompson 		Mail this story
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There is a real danger that millions of them will end up either unused or, worse, being dumped. We’re increasingly being prompted to pass our unwanted PCs but as far as I can see there aren’t any console recycling schemes. Yet both the Xbox and the Playstation 2 are just computers, and although they are shipped as dedicated games systems they can do other things. Sony provides an official Linux for the PlayStation 2, based on the Red Hat kernel, and it comes with a collection of libraries to let games developers use the specialised graphics hardware that makes it such a good gaming platform

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It takes some work, but an XboX makes a dandy thin client AnonymousCoward 0 1,495 Oct 1, 2005 9:23 PM

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