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Some info for research I'm doing

Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 11:18 pm
by icewolfx
Ok to make a long story short I am working on a feasibility study on using the Xbox as a cheap replacement for a home computer. What I need from people who reply to this thread is what they use Gentoox on their Xbox for. Try to give a brief description of typical activities done when using Gentoox.

Note: I am not asking whether or not you think that the Xbox could be used feasibly as a home computer replacement! I might ask that question in another post, but it will be awhile.

Thanks.

Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 11:45 pm
by ShALLaX
Hosting this site, and ripping dvds.

Also, works fine for web browsing, email and playing music ;) Oh and playing the ripped dvds ;)

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 1:55 am
by linbox
digital slide projector on the TV to show pictures from my digital camera to friends :lol:

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 2:02 am
by fuz
browsing net, divX, watching divX, music, playing quake/games, holding my coffee in the cup holder/phillips drive

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 8:32 am
by nobspangle
surfing the net, playing games, watching movies, learning about linux

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 4:29 pm
by Sniper Fox
- Testing Linux things
- Showing off linux to my friend who have never seen it before
- .NET / mono test compiles

oh, and
- Waiting for OpenOffice.org 1.1 to load

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 10:55 pm
by Timmo
browsing the net + hosting a ftp site (come on it's only been installed 2 hours!)

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 4:08 am
by magnav0x
Just installed GentooX on my box yesterday, but so far I just use it for distributed computing projects :P Every little bit helps!

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 9:38 pm
by ¡Mysto!
Browsing the web + As a cd player(Once I get it to work) + Just installed tetex to try and use it to write some maths in LaTeX.

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 5:29 pm
by Vladivar
Browsing the web, listening to music, playing with linux for the first time as an experiment to see if it going to ever go on my main pc, looking at naked pictures of my girl f :D all in glorios 32inch sony vision :D

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:04 pm
by supersmithy
learning how to use linux :)

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:58 pm
by Trogdor
fuz wrote:holding my coffee in the cup holder/phillips drive
You mean there are other uses for a phillips drive??!??!!!!???!?!!?!?!?!??!!?!?!???!????????????????????????!!?!?!!!!!!!

Oh yeah...

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 12:46 pm
by BigFisher
There´s a long list but I´m making it short. The main thing is that you can slide down in your sofa and get it all on one screen.

Here´s some stuff I do on my XBOX:

:arrow: Web Server
:arrow: FTP Server
:arrow: Fileserver
:arrow: Send & read e-mail
:arrow: Browsing the web
:arrow: Reading/making MS Word docs (OO)
:arrow: Reading/making MS Excel docs (OO)
:arrow: Reading/making MS PowerPoint docs (OO)
:arrow: Browsing pictures
:arrow: Watching movies
:arrow: Listen to music
:arrow: Chatt with friends
:arrow: Playing games

:idea: Well I guess everything that a normal PC connected to at TV would do except harddisk recording from TV.[/img]

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:26 pm
by witchy2k4
Basically all I use it for is a method to get my kids onto the Net and OFF my main pc!

Works a treat :)

I'll most likely start using it for other things once I've learnt a little bit more about Linux, I've installed it on my PC now, so I'll test things on the PC 1st and then do the same on the Xbox.

Xbox linux is a great way to tech yourself the ins and outs of the OS.

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:44 pm
by AErph
I use mine to Practice on linux, Play around with apache on a *nix system, and just because i can.