[Cialug] SOT: Car PC?

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 14:48 +0000, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Anyone doing, (still doing?) the CarPC thing?
> 
> If you are, what are you using it for?  GPS, Audio/Video or roaming WLAN
> access?  What are the biggest frustrations with the system (startup time)?
> Running Linux or "some other" operating system?

I've seen some recent work regarding dbus service activation that
promises to greatly shorten startup times for Linux.  A lot of that work
is being driven by the OLPC folks[1], who for obvious reasons want to
minimize the amount of work it takes to get a system started up.

I think that one thing that could certainly help out any project is
getting LinuxBIOS running on your motherboard, most BIOSs spend
inordinate amounts of time doing self-tests and initializations before
you even get to the point of loading Grub or LILO.

[1] http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=297

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