After considering some of the posts above concerning SlimCD, external drives, SoftModded Xboxes, etc. I have a few thoughts:
1) In reference to the Xbox-linux folks "steering" you to the hardware mod, I really think that just them showcasing Cromwell BIOS and avoid much of the legal wrangling surrounding the "grey" nature of chipping your Xbox. Certainly, the softmod could work well if you only want a part time SlimServer. This is really a discussion best left to their forum...not really here. 2) For the ModChip fans...yes, you can only get ALL the advantages of a large drive, Xbox Live! and alternative BIOS's with a ModChip. 3) For the fellow wondering about sources of used Xboxes...the vintage of hardware is actually important as pre-November 2003 boxes are the easiest to modify with the Hardware and Software preparations and they will be the cheapest because they are older. 4) As regards the software mod, I believe it would be possible to remaster Michael Herger's excellent SlimCD product to lay over top X-DSL Linux and run as a LiveCD at runlevel 2. However, you would have to either transfer music via FTP or a hard drive transplant with all your music, or pre-configure the remastered LiveCD with SaMBa and SSH ready to go AND reset passwords for security reasons. Then you'd have a solution that is also power failure resistant since the OS is read-only. I might take that on as a later project for giggles and education. 5) Last...there was someone wondering about a USB drive for music. Again, some remastering would require creating a mount point in the SlimCD LiveCD to allow a seamless use of the disc without SSH'ing into the unit, since it should really be runlevel 2. After some thought into this, the 11 MBps speed limit of a USB drive shouldn't be a big issue as long as the number of streams is limited on your network. All up, I am _very_ happy with my runlevel 2 XlimXerver unit. It's quiet, just sits in the corner happily playing away. The next addition will be a small FM transmitter kit that will take a constant random stream and let me tune in anywhere within about 100 meter (330 feet). Cheers to all. Squiff -- squiffy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ squiffy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3173 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16337 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
