Xbox As A Server Farm Commodity Box

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Posted by timothy on Thursday April 12, 2001 @01:39PM from the does-this-box-come-with-overalls? dept.

ballpoint writes: "Yahoo has this story suggesting the Xbox as a cheap platform for a web server, by packaging Apache as a game. The article was written by Adam Barr, an ex-Microsoft employee who previously suggested running Linux on the Xbox. I suppose there are still more 'games' for the Xbox in the pipeline." With all the talk about making Dreamcasts into rendering farms, perhaps that would be a good application as well.

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