Re: Car PC project

["Stuart Poulton" <stuart.poulton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Think this might be of interest

http://www.gutterslide.com/boomboxpc/

S


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ant" <ant@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Car PC project


> On Sunday 30 May 2004 11:10, Paul Gordon wrote:
> > Hey Ant,
> >
> > What OS do you use on yours? - you're a bit of a *nix-head aren't
you?
....
>
> Yep, I'm running gentoo linux on it. The trick is to minimise the
delay
> between ignition, and the pc being ready to play music, which I've
currently
> got down to about 15 seconds. I need to put the new 2.6 kernel on
there
and
> investigate the suspend-to-disk stuff to see if it can be lowered
further.
>
> > I'm not, so I'm almost certainly going to use a Windows OS
>
> It certainly seems a popular choice - I've no idea what the boot-times
are
or
> hwo you'd go about speeding it up though.
>
> > Related to that is what UI do you use? - I see there are a few
around,
some
> > free, some not...
>
> I boot to the command line for speed. The UI is currently done through
a
> custom headend driver, altho I plan to augment this with a VFD.
>
> cheers
>
> ant
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