[Asterisk-Users] xbox asterisk?

[Terry H. Gilsenan]

Actually, for a pre 1.5 xbox gentoox is fairly simple to install once you
know the tricks and have a copy of Mechassault <smile>
 
The problem is going to be that the xbox has 64Mb ram, and asterisk is going
to have difficulty sharing this with the OS.
 
I have several xbox-en that have had additional USB ports installed and are
operating as firewalls with Gentoox and iptables, squid, shorewall, etc...
so I have not doubt about the installability of linux on the xbox and the
useability of the xbox-linux package (?), but I think that asterisk will
have trouble with the memory size.
 
I am willing to give it a go though and report back in a week or so....
 
Regards,
T
 


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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michael Stahl
Sent: Tuesday, 17 May 2005 8:59 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] xbox asterisk?


Although getting Linux running on the XBox sounds easy - it's not.  In
particular, if you get a ver 1.6 box you will be hard pressed to get Linux
installed.  Be prepared to spend $ on a boot chip, a replacement DVD drive
(unless you are lucky to get one of the samsung drives), an upgraded hard
disk (10gb doesn't hold a lot of voice mail), etc.
 
All in, you will spend $500.  For that money you can go to Best Buy and get
a returned/open box PC with more horsepower.
 
Mike

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From: Dean Collins [mailto:Dean at collins.net.pr] 
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 10:40 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] xbox asterisk?



http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050512.html

 

interesting comment this week about the Xbox - any intelligent thoughts
here?

 

I know the price point puts it above most users Asterisk outlay (I run mine
on a $100 P3 -800)

 

But interesting to see what happens if people start running video
conferencing etc on their home asterisk servers, and lets face it where else
can you buy this kind of subsidized processing power from at that price.

 

 

Cheers,

Dean

 

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