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Emulation news site Zophar’s Domain has posted a news story that, suspiciously, I haven’t found anywhere else (though I did just submit it to Slashdot. Apparently some ambitious (or bored) individual has ported Linux (not sure which distribution) to the Dreamcast. Screenshots (taken with a digital camera) can be seen here, here, here and here. You can download the kernel from this FTP site. Oh, and if you’re ambitious enough to want to attempt to create a DC CD-R to run this, you’ll need to follow the instructions on this page. Now, I haven’t tested anything to check the validity of this so this could be all an elaborate hoax (these screenshots don’t give any real indication that the Dreamcast in the shot actually has anything to do with what is on the TV). Imagine – the console famous for emblazoning the Windows CE logo running Linux! Granted, I’m not sure – outside of the tech demo nature of it all – how useful this is, but it’s still neat in theory. Perhaps if someone out there could check it out to see if it’s real or not…