Some info for research I'm doing

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icewolfx
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Some info for research I'm doing

Post 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.
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Hosting this site, and ripping dvds.

Also, works fine for web browsing, email and playing music ;) Oh and playing the ripped dvds ;)
The original Xbox adaptation of Gentoo
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digital slide projector on the TV to show pictures from my digital camera to friends :lol:
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browsing net, divX, watching divX, music, playing quake/games, holding my coffee in the cup holder/phillips drive
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surfing the net, playing games, watching movies, learning about linux
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- Testing Linux things
- Showing off linux to my friend who have never seen it before
- .NET / mono test compiles

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- Waiting for OpenOffice.org 1.1 to load
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browsing the net + hosting a ftp site (come on it's only been installed 2 hours!)
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Post 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!
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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.
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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
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learning how to use linux :)
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fuz wrote:holding my coffee in the cup holder/phillips drive
You mean there are other uses for a phillips drive??!??!!!!???!?!!?!?!?!??!!?!?!???!????????????????????????!!?!?!!!!!!!
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BigFisher
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Oh yeah...

Post 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]
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Post 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.
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Post by AErph »

I use mine to Practice on linux, Play around with apache on a *nix system, and just because i can.
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