Windows 2000 Runs On Xbox Under Linux 258
MBCook writes "Everybody's favorite Xbox hackers have got Linux running for roughly six weeks, and now it runs well enough to announce that Windows has been run inside Linux with common PC virtualization software. They even have a little video of it playing a MPEG 4 of The Matrix fullscreen!"
oh the irony (Score:5, Funny)
...of taking an MS product and hacking at it 'till it runs linux, just to emulate another MS product.
Microsoft's View (Score:1, Funny)
And if not, would they oppose Linux on top of Win2K on top of Linux on the Xbox? Or even.......nevermind.
But... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But... (Score:1, Funny)
wow.. running for 6 weeks! (Score:5, Funny)
I remember when NT first came out, and Microsoft was pushing it as an Enterprise Server. One of their top engineers was involved in the press announcement, and made the comment with pride that some of the systems in the lab have been running for six weeks without crashing.
The analysts and large customers ROASTED him: "We've had AS400's and HP 3000's and 9000's and Dec Vax's that haven't crashed EVER for YEARS."
Somehow, Gates wiggled his way into the data center. Those Vax's and 3000's are probably still running without crashing, ten years later, if they're still there....
Re:oh the irony (Score:2, Funny)
Okay.. so how many... (Score:5, Funny)
- One for cracking the Xbox.
- Two for pirating Windows.
- Three for having a bootleg copy of the Matrix.
I guess if you wanna piss 'em off, better do it all at once.Re:But... (Score:3, Funny)
Play an XBox game...
in an XBox emulator...
running in Win2000...
running within Linux.
The story so far... (Score:5, Funny)
It is fitting that the video in question is from The Matrix. I just want to know what combination of blue and red pills to you take understand the whole setup.
Why is Tux crying??? (Score:2, Funny)
Tux crying [sourceforge.net]
is it because he is sitting on top of a Microsoft product???
He looks fine in this picture [sourceforge.net].
Re:Presumably they chose Windows 2000 over Windows (Score:5, Funny)
Product Activation: "Hello, Product Activation center. What can I do to help you today?"
Crafty Hacker: "Uh, yeah. I need to re-activate my XP installation. I changed a couple things and it apparently tripped something."
PA: "Okay, sure. First, what's the CD Key on your XP installation disk?"
CH: "Err, its [rattles off numbers/letters]."
PA: "Right. Okay. What type of system do you have it running on now,then? I need your make/model, processor speed, [etc.]"
CH: "Well, I guess the system is a Microsoft XBOX. [starts ratting off rest of system specs] --"
PA: "A What? It doesn't run on that. Are you sure you don't mean--"
CH: "No, really... the verification hash of the system is [rattles off numbers/letters]"
PA: "That seems like a valid hash, but..." (Increasingly nervous product activation employee has a panic attack as a manager tries to make sense of the ensuing chaos.)
Re:But... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:oh the irony (Score:0, Funny)