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

[Tom Eisenmenger]

Hi Alan,

I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your presentation.  Makes me  
want to find an SBC project to tackle!...

Regards,

Tom Eisenmenger

On Sep 10, 2008, at 11:01 AM, 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.
>
> 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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