Re: Help in Building car computer. - Guy Macon

nasif4003@gmail.com wrote:

>I am  going to build a car pc . The machine will provide multi-media
>capabilities, wifi, mobile telephony, am/fm/tv reception and fm
>transmission. Picture and video capture, audio recording and basic
>computing using openoffice.org. I  am on initial stage of that
>project. I have decided to use Embedded Linux as operating system as
>it is opensource os.
>
>I have no intension to develop driver program for wifi, mobile
>telephony, am/fm tv reception and transmission if open source driver
>is available. Can anyone suggest any open source linux which has that
>drivers.
>
>Moreover I have chosen VoomPc for hardware platform. Can anyone
>suggest better hardware platform that VoomPc?

The VoomPC is a good choice, *unless* you need a video card, 
sound card, etc. that won't fit.  I advise building and
testing the system in a $10 case and later packaging it for
automotive use.

Further advice:

Buy the book _Linux Multimedia Hacks_.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxmmhks/

Join the Linux Multimedia forum.
http://www.linuxforums.org/multimedia/

Linux distributions are free, so you can try several.

Here are my suggestions in the order you should try them.

Ubuntu Multimedia Center
http://www.ubuntummc.com/
http://www.google.com/search?q=Ubuntu+Multimedia+Center

dyne:bolic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyne:bolic
http://www.dynebolic.org/ 

PCLinuxOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCLinuxOS
http://www.pclinuxos.com/

StartCom MultiMedia Linux
http://linux.startcom.org/
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=startcom

64 Studio
http://64studio.com/about

Debian Multimedia project
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia



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