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| 2009-01-25 |
Distribution Release: Gentoox 7.0 "Home", 5.0 "Pro" |
| Thomas Pedley has announced new versions of Gentoox, a Gentoo-based distribution for the Xbox: "It has been about 21 months, but here they are... the 'You're still doing this?!' releases. I don't really know if there's any demand for Gentoox anymore, but I figured I'd put these out there just in case people do still use it. The major features are: fully synchronised software (both with Magic and Portage as of a few days ago); ditched RAR file format in favour of TBZ (file sizes are slightly bigger, but it's free!); nifty installer progress bar; updated BusyBox in all initrds; ditched KDE, only Xfce is available now (KDE was way too bloated); upgraded to latest 2.4 series kernel; switched Home edition to use -Os due to CPU's tiny cache (Pro still uses -O2 as this will give better number-crunching performance)...." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download the "Home" 7.0 or "Pro" 5.0 editions from here: Gentoox.ShALLaX.Home-Edition-v7.1.tbz2 (805MB, MD5), Gentoox.ShALLaX.Pro-Edition-v5.1.tbz2 (245MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-07-04 |
Distribution Release: Gentoox 5.0 |
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| The project developing Gentoox, a Gentoo-based operating system for the Xbox, has announced a number of new releases: "New release: Gentoox Home v5.0. Summary: Gentoox Loader v6.04; updated software as of 29th July 2006; fully synced with magic as of 29th July 2006; on screen keyboard in GDM activated by hitting 'B' 5 times; KDE 3.5.2 and XFce 4.2.x; ext3 file system; junk moved out of local.start and local.stop; checkroot / checkfs bug fixed; Sparkle 2.0; ALSA and kernel ebuilds made to be more compatible with Gentoo; Linux kernel 2.4.32." Besides Gentoox Home, the project's Pro, Sparkle and Resctoox editions have all been updated; see the release announcement for more details. Download: Gentoox.ShALLaX.Home-Edition-v5.0.rar (794MB, MD5). |
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| 2005-06-16 |
Distribution Release: Gentoox 4.0 |
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| Gentoox is a Gentoo-based operating system for the Xbox. Version 4.0 "Home Edition" has been released: "So here it is, the one everyone's been waiting for... I proudly present Gentoox Home v4.0. Notable changes: Gentoox Loader v5.11; updated software as of 04-Jun-2005; fully sync-ed with magic as of 12-Jun-2005; Sparkle v1.5; removed LED tutorials - they are now part of the Loader; KDE 3.4.1; XFce 4.2.0; Switched to 2005.0/2.4 profile; Stardust is more friendly to v1.6 Xboxes with overscan." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download: Gentoox.ShALLaX.Home-Edition-v4.0.rar (792MB). |
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| September 2009 |
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At one point or another gamers can hit the wall when using other OS systems such as Linux and Mac, as Windows has always been renowned as the OS of choice for the gaming community. In a lot of cases this has changed somewhat over the last few years with the use of virtualization software that helps to bridge that gap, and it can be quite successful to a point. Of course, when you virtualize another OS you can lose some of the performance, than say running a game natively, and with slowdowns and bugs comes frustration. We have listed a few resources that we think are worth a mention for different types of gamers, both online multiplayer and single player, see what you think:
- World of Goo. This is a great puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours, there's also a free playable demo version.
- If you're a online poker enthusiast we can recommend you check out the pokerlistings.com Linux poker page, it has a list of poker apps that are compatible with your OS.
- For the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) crowds you could always take a look at Vendetta online, "thousands of people can play together, at the same time, in a single, persistent universe", sounds great!
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