DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: xbox port



Quote (cbagger01 @ Feb. 11 2005,18:41)
Although the coolness factor for an XBOX with DSL on it would be high :)

How about just an XBOX case with a mini-ITX board inside? So you have a "cool" case and a decent computer.
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How about just an XBOX case with a mini-ITX board inside? So you have a "cool" case and a decent computer.


Why does that make me want a Mac Mini in an Xbox case for some reason...
Quote (DonttPanic @ Feb. 11 2005,21:41)
Quote (cbagger01 @ Feb. 11 2005,18:41)
Although the coolness factor for an XBOX with DSL on it would be high :)

How about just an XBOX case with a mini-ITX board inside? So you have a "cool" case and a decent computer.

While you're at it, why dont you put a Mini-ITX in a Nintendo? It'll fit and it's been done before.
The xbox can boot from cd's just fine, the gentoox installer fits on a cd and runs just fine. An xbox port WOULD be easier than say recompiling everything to run on another platform remember this is x86 we're talking about with standard pc componants. As for testing there are thousands of people on the xbox-scene forum that would gladly offer up their boxes for the cause. we are tired of waiting 30 seconds for fire fox to load and crash! The source code for the bootloader is freely availible - that would be the only hard part and it's already taken care offfff. as for microsofts xbox2 it is to be backwards compatible with old xbox games meaning it will have to be x86 as well OR fugin fast and emulating an x86... honestly which is more likely? They will choose the cheapest componants to lower production price and increase profits and that means using pc componants again. as for more methods of keeping us from hacking our boxes I say bring it on. We'll have a new bios written for it within a month of it's release and modchips in production the next month. Linux will  run on it as well. mark my words
As I previously said,

at it's core, DSL is a stripped down KNOPPIX livecd.  KNOPPIX is based on Debian.

There already is a Xebian project that brings Debian Linux to the XBOX.

So my first advice is to try installing Xebian and then stripping down the package list so that it looks like the DSL package list (apt-get remove command).

Here is the DSL package list.  It is a little bit out of date and it does not list any non-Debian programs that are part of DSL:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/packages.html

The key to a successful Linux on an XBOX is RAM usage. This is achieved by removing all of the other crap that autoloads into memory for standard linux distributions.  It is also achieved by using the Fluxbox window manager instead of bloatware like KDE or GNOME.  Finally, a big assist goes to the TinyX/Kdrive/Freedesktop.org Xserver that saves memory over a full-blown XFree86 install.

You will have difficulty using these servers because 1.6 rev XBOXes use a different video interface and I doubt that they will do VESA compliant video.

You may be able to get it to work with a custom XEBIAN kernel that includes an XBOX framebuffer and then use the TinyX "Xfbdev" server.

It is not an impossible task, but it can be done and it is probably easier to tweak XEBIAN than it is to do a full port over of DSL.

Good Luck.
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