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    A group of hackers has turned Microsoft's gaming console into a desktop computer running SuSE Linux, but there's a catch: the games are rather slow.

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    People in the Chinese government fear that Microsoft technology contains equipment that could cripple their infrastructure, and they are determined to do something about it: install Linux.

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