Re: gentoo on xbox

Start at www.gentoo.org

You can get gentoo for many platforms, even PC.

On Saturday 24 July 2004 02:43, David Ondzes wrote:
> 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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