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Hacker cracks Xbox challenge (News.com)

Posted Apr 1, 2003 13:41 UTC (Tue) by foobar (guest, #10427)
In reply to: Hacker cracks Xbox challenge (News.com) by getalife
Parent article: Hacker cracks Xbox challenge (News.com)

Thanks to let reverse-ingeneering hobbists doing their hobby in peace.

>> Mr.Gates is probably laffing at this as we speak..
XBox is sold very cheap, just hardware-cost, in order to each kid can buy one. Microsoft just earns money from games'licenses, very expensive, them! If everybody buying XBox don't buy games but install Linux, Billy won't really laugh... don't you think so?

In Europe, Microsoft retail price is less than 200E. For the price of a PC motherboard I could have a powerful Linux box.
But I won't force you to do the same :-)

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Hacker cracks Xbox challenge (News.com)

Posted Apr 1, 2003 13:57 UTC (Tue) by beejaybee (guest, #1581) [Link]

"In Europe, Microsoft retail price is less than 200E. For the price of a PC motherboard I could have a powerful Linux box."

Sorry, you don't get my point. 200E will buy you a second-user system box with more power than Xbox, and without the hardware tieups. (Look at eBay if you don't believe me.) In fact these days you could build a system box from _new_ parts purchased retail with similar power to the 700 MHz Pentium III embedded in Xbox for round about that price - so long as you don't need leading-edge graphics.

It may be true that M$ loses money by subsidising Xbox hardware, but somehow I don't think we can bankrupt M$ by all rushing out & buying up Xbox systems.

True Significance

Posted Apr 1, 2003 16:48 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

The true significance of this event (besides hack value for the participants) is that all those Xboxes received as gifts can be turned into real computers. Useless hardware has been turned into useful hardware. Captive hardware has been freed.

There would never be any point in buying an Xbox to run Linux on. Rather, when there's already an Xbox lying around, now it has potential as a Free Software engine.

"Never seen Linux? I'll show you what it looks like. Here, let's just plug this into your Xbox, and you'll see!"

Or, "You don't have a computer? Never mind, look, you have an Xbox. We'll just plug this in and go."

Or, "I wish I could afford to get a computer. All I have is this dumb Xbox. Maybe I can make something out of it?"

Hacker cracks Xbox challenge (News.com)

Posted Apr 1, 2003 14:30 UTC (Tue) by getalife (guest, #10423) [Link]

honestly.. i would have considered it.. but day in day out you hear on all the newsgroups and thread M$ is this and they did that.. if you hate them soo much.. don't give em money!

linux is not free either.. everyone has to make money.. other then downloading a free version copy of it and burning it onto a CD what else is there. I would love it to be in my datacenter.. but the honest to God truth is any Enterprise app costs about the same on Linux as it would on SUN or M$.. Oracle? Peoplesoft? Netbackup?

what we need is people working on making linux an enterprise OS.. not a xbox OS.. if you can do it in ure spare time.. yippee.. but its hardly news that will make a difference to linux world..
installing it on xbox is not what is going to make it more popular is it???

and for all of you who got soo turned on by this ever heard of knoppix?