[tuxdroid-user] Dedicated distro/device thread

[Florent T. <ft...@gm...>]

This discussion/idea started because tux cannot do a lot of standalone
things (like waking a desktop up). Some people like me don't like to
keep a computer up all the time (400-600W), so the only solution is to
plug tux to an embedded device: silent, power efficient.

Interesting devices (80=80 budget)
- Linksys NSLU2 (2 usb, 2 ether, 266 mhz)
- Asus WL-500G Premium Router (2 usb, ether switch, wlan...)
- old computers

Why?
- multiple usb connectivity
- officially GPLed -> custom firmwares
- no sound, low power consumption : the ideal tuxdroid companion

Interesting firmwares: ipkg-based firmwares
- unslug firmware
- openwrt/dd-wrt

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Ipkg ipkg support on it's way
Packages list: http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/unslung/wl500g/Packages

Interesting packages:
- heyu (X10 home automation): for REAL desktop wakingup (not only from
hibernation), lights controlling, etc...
- speex codec support
- wakelan
- attractive web interfaces (dd-wrt / x-wrt...), cgi-bin sys cmd
execution (cf openwrt)
- mpc/mpd
- irc/jabber/IM gateways

What misses (TODO/TOPORT/IDEAS)
- speech things (flite / pocketsphinx)
- webif dev, packaging
- daemon porting (ARM)
- aria2c frontend (for torrent dl)
....

I really think that a web interface would do the job better than GTK
bindings, plus it would allow working on non-desktop computers
(screenless, from xbox, from anything...). How could it be achieved
(the webif/python interfacing)?

In fact, i'm imagining something like a real "home server", using tux
as human interface ("tux, lights on !") with (very limited)
emotions/animation.

Please tell me what you think. I know it's off the tuxdroid project.

Florent