[TriLUG] TRILUG MEETING - Rolling Your Own: Building a REAL Internet Appliance

[Roy Vestal]

Will there be a V.O.D. and/or slides available? I'm really interested in 
this topic but may not be able to make it...

Alan Porter wrote:
> I just wanted to remind everyone that the September TriLUG
> meeting will be tomorrow (Thursday) at Red Hat HQ at 7pm.
> See http://www.trilug.org for directions.
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> This month's topic will be "Rolling Your Own: Building a REAL
> Internet Appliance", presented by me.
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> I will be showing the internet-enabled oven from TMIO.  I
> will show how we built our own Linux distro from scratch,
> MacGyver style, starting with nothing but a kernel and busybox.
> There will be a few demos, including:
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> - A short promotional video, with cheesy music that sounds like
>   it came from a pr0n movie.
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> - "tmioppix", a customized LiveCD that we used to flash CF cards.
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> - The obligatory bash session, showing how packages are built.
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> - A live remote-control demo of the oven.
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> If you ever felt like your Linux system was bloated, and you
> want to see what "bare bones" looks like, this will be a good
> one.
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> Or if you just heard the words "internet oven" and thought "WTF?",
> this might answer some questions (and create many, many more).
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