Re: gentoo on xbox

I have never used gentoo ? What distribution is it similar to ? Will
the cd boot on a PC as well as an xbox ?

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:36:40 -0400, Sean E. Covel
<[email protected]> wrote:
> WooHoo!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> 
> 
> Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In the last couple of months there has been a gentoo project ongoing with the
> > aim of supporting xbox within portage itself. Support basically consists of:
> >
> > A new xbox profile
> > Bootable livecds
> > Adding ebuilds for xbox packages and patches
> > Irc and mailing lists
> >
> > The xbox profile lives in the portage tree
> > at /usr/portage/profiles/xbox-x86-2004.0/. Existing users of gentoo on xbox
> > can point /etc/make.profile here and pick up all of the new stuff.
> >
> > A bootable livecd has been compiled by Edgar Hucek and is available at
> > http://www.xbox-linux.org/down/livecd-pentium3-20040715.iso.gz  (md5 at
> > http://www.xbox-linux.org/down/livecd-pentium3-20040715.iso.gz.md5)
> >
> > New ebuilds. xbox-sources now exists and contains the latest 2.4 and 2.6
> > kernels. lirc, xfree86, freevo, etc. should all work with just
> > 'emerge' (they'll even install working xbox config files).
> >
> > The irc channel is #gentoo-xbox on freenode (www.freenode.org).
> >
> > To subscribe to the mailing list send an email to
> > [email protected]. If you are going to use gentoo xbox, or be
> > filing bugs, it would be useful to be this list :)
> >
> > What we really need now is for people to try it out so we can hammer out the
> > bugs. This is public development so if people are lurking with ebuilds for
> > any other useful xbox things (pyddr?), bug fixes, or whatever, now is the
> > time to get them added to gentoo. Our aim is to have xbox support working as
> > well as any other gentoo supported architecture.
> >
> > Thats all folks!
> >
> >
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