Re: [tuxdroid-user] Dedicated distro/device thread

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

... added to the wiki

On 3/21/07, Florent THIERY <ft...@gm...> wrote:
> 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
>