07-01-14 16:19 Sean Dennis wrote to Ed Vance about Linux & X-Box   
      
    SD> @MSGID: <53B3E182.13000.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    SD> Hello, Ed.   
      
    SD> 30 Jun 14 at 17:18, you wrote to me:   
      
    EV> IIRC You talked in some echo about using some version of Linux on a   
    EV> X-BOX 360 Console.   
      
    SD> No, it is the original XBox.  I know nothing about the new   
    SD> systems and I do not know if you can install Linux on any XBox   
    SD> model after that.   
      
   Thanks Sean,   
      
   My 'remember-er' doesn't always retain all of the details.   
      
    EV> "If it doesn't come from Microsoft that it is 'illegal' to to that."   
      
    SD> If you modify Windows in any way besides the ways that are   
    SD> built-in, that's illegal too, but people still do it.   
      
   I only modify Windows when Woody Leonhard says to.   
   And this XP box I run is forgotten by MS even though Woody says there   
   is a recent Report that XP gained a few fractions of a point and 8/8.1   
   lost a bit of a fraction of a point.   
      
    EV> I told him a X-Box 360 Console is just a dedicated pc and that all the   
    EV> game consoles from the Atari 2600 on up to what is available today are   
    EV> just dedicated pcs.   
      
    SD> Yes.   
      
   Thanks for the confirmation!   
   73   
      
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