[ale] distro for carputer

[Charles Brian Quinn]

> I was thinking of using gentoo for a SFF or carputer, but I haven't
> decided on the hardware yet. Once I do, I will probably will try gentoo
> first as it starts from the bare minimum system from start. Of coarse,
> the system may be very slow compiling, but that would depend on the
> number of apps needed.
> 
> Randy

Do check http://www.mp3car.com/

I set a up a computer in my car a while back, it was pretty cool.  While 
I wasn't yet a member of the gentoo club then (was even trying to use 
windows embedded - yikes!), I would also too consider doing a gentoo 
setup now-a-days.  Things like festival, gpsdrive, and of course mplayer 
with a nice touch-screen enabled skin, and suspend2 (hibernation) would 
make a really fabulous project.  Couple that with a mythtv setup and 
some automatic jobs for transcoding recordings down to something 
manageable (size/quality-wise) and a way to transfer them to your car 
easily, and you're good to go.

I have a page on my car computer setup:  http://www.seebq.com/projects/ 
and lots of pictures.

Please do let the list know how it goes,
-- 
Charles Brian Quinn
www.seebq.com