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

[Bob Emerson]

I am also interested in this and for pretty much the same reasons cannot
attend meetings. Would love to be able to download this information

Bob Emerson


On 9/10/08, Dave Moody <davethebald at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Mr. Porter - I have been receiving TriLUG emails for a few months, but have
> not had an opportunity to attend a meeting, as I travel every week.  I am
> west of Charlotte right now until Friday.
>
> However, I am very interested in this subject, as I am a very enthusiastic
> amateur geek.  I have looked at DSL and another (the?) other small linux ( I
> can't recall the name off the top of my head).  What you're describing also
> sounds like fun.
>
> I do not know how these meetings work, but, will there be a presentation of
> some formality?  Could I see it after you are done?  Am I being totally
> inappropriate?
>
> Ignorantly yours
>
> Dave Moody
> 919-702-2195
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> --- On Wed, 9/10/08, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
> From: Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org>
> Subject: [TriLUG] TRILUG MEETING - Rolling Your Own: Building a REAL
> Internet Appliance
> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 11:01 AM
>
> 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.
>
> This month's topic will be "Rolling Your Own: Building a REAL
> Internet Appliance", presented by me.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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> Alan
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