On Thu, May 06, 2004, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, but why did MS deploy the Xbox using Linux > instead of one of their own operating systems, perhaps Windows CE?
They didn't. As I understand it, the xbox runs something much like the Win2K kernel. Since the xbox is largely known hardware with a custom bios, Linux is installable on it if you utilise various tricks. > Is this a tacit admission by them that their own offerings are not up > to scratch in the gaming dept? Evidently not. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
