Author: Stuart Matheson Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Running linux/BSD on an xbox?
Oh cool. I'll check it out. Thanks John :)
2009/2/27 John Wesley <bluemonki@???>
> Stuart Matheson wrote:
> > Hey Everyone,
> >
> > I've got an xbox that is sitting around not doing much so I thought I
> > might like to have it set up as a server. I'd like to run Apache, MySQL,
> > PHP (for playing around with stuff) but I'd like to keep the media
> > centre functionality too. What is particularly important is that I'd
> > still be able to use the remote control, mainly so my girlfriend can use
> > it without any drama.
> >
> > Has anyone had experience setting this kind of thing up? I'm looking for
> > hints/tips on which OS, partitioning options, application
> > recommendations, etc. It has been modded and contains a 320GB HDD.
> >
> > All suggestions welcome (including alternate hardware that would suffice
> > and is cheap/green as I think the xbox consumes about 100w when running
> > flat out <http://www.anandtech.com/Linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2271&p=2>).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Stuart.
> >
> http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Xebian_HOWTO >
> This should be all you need to know :) I might even have the Mech
> Assault game somewhere too if you wanted to soft mod it.
>
> Last time I played with it, Freevo was the media centre and worked
> pretty well with the remote.
>
> ta
>
> John
>
>
>
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