Topic: e-Smith on the XBOX?

[Tony Roberts]

Why not?  Anyone tried to set this up?  Just kidding... only if I get bored.

[guestHH]

- Gentoox runs on xbox
- Mandrake 9 runs on xbox
- Dynabolic runs on xbox
so.......

[Norrie]

So...
I'd love to have an XBox running e-smith.  I was thinking about exactly that the other day...
http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/010895.html to allow permanent Linux installation on XBox.
and http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/ of course.
N.
8o)

[Cyrus Bharda]

Norrie,

I saw that post to, it was advertised on a lot of online news sites, only problem is that how do I save the file as it is posted (dayX.tgz) ?

Cyrus Bharda

[Jo]

@cyrus Bharda
mark the text starting at: begin-base64 644 dayX.tgz
to the end.
Then save it as mytext.txt or so at a linux box
Then at the linux box you type uudecode mytext.txt.
There will be a dayx.tgz in your directory.
Because i have no xbox, so i didn't know what you will get
jo

[Anonymous]

this would be great.  the thing with the other xbox linux distros is that they are full distros.

To port SME Server across basically as is would be awesome.

[oj]

Dumb question, but... WHY???

Does the world have a shortage of old PC hardware that SME can run on?

Is the X-Box controller more ergonomically friendly than a typical server keyboard?

Does the stability of SME bother you so much that you'd like to hobble it by running on Microsoft hardware?

[boringgit]

Xbox is basically an 800Mhz odd PIII which comes in a nice small case and costs less than £100.

Don't know about you, but I think that is a pretty good spec for SME in a small network environment, and I challenge you to find an equivalent PC for the same money.

OK, so expansion potential is close to 0%, but for a home network I think it would be great. Would certainly tempt me to go uot and get one (I am no great gamer)

[cydonia]

^exactly what i was going to post:).

in Australia, they are $250.

specs are:

PIII 800
10gig hdd
64mb sd-ram   *(is possible, but tricky, to upgrade)
dvd rom
4 usb ports (1.0)
10/100 nic
tv out


and you would be able to use a keyboard if SME was ported.  (you can on all the other ported distros)

[Anonymous]

I run Gentoo, Debian and XBOXMediaCentre on the xbox. Would be fun AND interesting to see SME server running on it for very small SME's.

[Norrie]

Wow,
I was just browsing the forum and saw this topic brought up again.  I was thinking about this the other day. Again!

Slightly off the topic of the original subject but just for info,  I'm running SME 6.0.1 on a dual PII 300 256M RAM.  It serves up MP3s of my CDs that I've started to rip that are played back using Xbox Media Center.

I downloaded "ripit" a Perl script, and installed cdparanoia and lame so that my server can convert my CDs for me.

I was thinking it might be cool to create a web interface for this or even an SME panel / contrib.  Trouble is... Ive never coded any Perl before but it seems like a nice starting place.

Anyone interested?
Anyone think this is a good / bad idea?

All the best
N
(posting as a guest as I've screwed up my forum login)