From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 21 19:48:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DFA31065676 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:48:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewberry@sentex.net) Received: from ccshst09.cs.uoguelph.ca (ccshst09.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.94.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0808FC12 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:48:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewberry@sentex.net) Received: from batman.cs.uoguelph.ca (batman.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.93.48]) by ccshst09.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m5LJmerU029072; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:48:40 -0400 Received: from blizzard.lan (p224xhjil1bpqp-d4-dyn.xDSL-1mm.sentex.ca [67.43.138.225]) (authenticated bits=0) by batman.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m5LJmI4q011457 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:48:18 -0400 Message-Id: From: Andrew Berry To: Wojciech Puchar In-Reply-To: <20080620124334.S47715@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-16--452688040; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:48:32 -0400 References: <20080620124334.S47715@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) X-Spam-Scanner: SpamAssassin 3.000004 (http://www.spamassassin.org/) on batman.cs.uoguelph.ca X-Spam-Score: hits=0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Tests: FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Status: Suspected X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 131.104.94.206 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 172.17.94.85 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xbox360? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:48:42 -0000 --Apple-Mail-16--452688040 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 20-Jun-08, at 6:44 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > i found here > > http://www.freebsdos.com/news/2008/01/23/freebsd-and-the-xbox-360/ > > that > > "Some of you may be aware that since the middle of 2005 it is > possible to run FreeBSD on the Microsoft Xbox and later also on the > Xbox 360. " > > does it mean that FreeBSD/xbox360 (3 powerPC cores) exist? > > i can't find anything on FreeBSD WWW, except for older Xbox > (pentium3) port > _______________________________________________ Considering that no one has been able to even run simple homebrew yet on the 360, I think that page was just incorrect. The 360 also has an in-order CPU IIRC which would significantly affect performance of general computing tasks. --Andrew --Apple-Mail-16--452688040--