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[slmz00]

Hello everyone, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

   Great community, great info.  I'm sure I'm not the 1st to think of this.  With all the progress in installing diff OS's, can the 360 be used as say a compact BF2 LAN server or possibly an actual client to run PC games? I know about the OS drivers for graphics being difficult to work around but I'm sure this problem will be tackled shortly (being the fact PS3s are going to be bundled with keyboard and mouse.).   Can this be done with a PS3 because of the openess of their sys architecture?  I would like to install linux on one of my machines or both, but can't justify doing it for the use of Linux word processor or internet surfing, (I have a PC for that).  What are some other intriguing or cool things that can be done with Linux (besides password crackin!!).  One more thing, after you Linux your 360, can it be still used as a reg 360 and with LIVE?

Thanks in advance, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)
SLMZ00

[Scan-C]

You won't see 3D support on 360 or PS3 anytime soon. For both of them there's not much documentation about the GPU and to make it worse the PS3 doesn't allow direct hardware access. It disables all 3D functionalitys and some of the SPUs work only half speed when not running games.
You can use your 360 as normal when you install Linux as it boots through a shader bug in the King Kong game.

Well, what else can you do with Linux? A LAN server, DVR or just use it to browse the web from your living room. Linux can do everything that Windows can but on a 360 or PS3 it's wasted power except when you won't to work deep on the hardware.
Everything that's "every day use" can be done by small x86 system like the VIA epia. They consume less power, are easier to modify and you can't add PCI cards to it.