> 4> Just bought a Play Station 2 with Gran Turismo 3. The reason I > 4> bought a > PS2 over an XBox is that someone told me that you can buy a > Linux kit for it, and it'll run a 'butchered' version of > Linux quite tidily... Anyone have any information about this?
Apparently you can buy a kit for ~ $US200, it comes with a harddrive, keyboard & mouse. OTOH, you can get an Xbox & do the following 1) get a USB memory stick (32Mb is enough) $30-40NZ 2) butcher some USB cables up to provide you keyboard & mouse $14-28NZ 3) write a CDRW with an image of Ed's Xebian (Debian based) $2 4) Hire MechCommander to activate the hack $5 5) Buy USB keyboard + mouse $30 And you're done. Depending on how much stuff you already have, running Linux on an Xbox will cost you between $0 and ~$100NZ. Far better than $200US. I recently helped a friend do this - You do not need to open the Xbox or reflash the bios & it will still run Xbox games. It plays DVDs & VCDs, etc really well - infact I am VERY impressed with the quality of the TV output of it, puts my Geforce2 to shame. All in all, I'd say return the PS2 & get an Xbox, it is easy & cheap to mod, runs standard i386 binaries and the instructions are pretty straight forward. Cheers Brad
