Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a TV Box

[Justin Patrin <papercrane@gmail.com>]

On 7/29/05, Luke Albers <gtg940r@mail.gatech.edu> wrote:
> Tom,
> 
> This is designed for cell phones and pdas but it might be worth your
> time to have a look at
> http://www.rasterman.com/files/eem.avi

Any idea where I can find "eem" sources / information? I see stuff
about E17 being embedded capable, but no actual mentions of "eem".

> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:49 +1200, Tom Eastman wrote:
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> > I've got a reasonably stripped down gentoo box (P3-733) with a good video
> > card running in my living room, with the TV as its monitor and a wireless
> > keyboard and mouse.
> >
> > Sounds great so far, doesn't it?  But what shall I do with it?  It has good
> > TV out capability but no TV in.  I have freevo running at the moment, but
> > not MythTV, I'm not really brave enough yet, it seems pretty complicated to
> > set up (I have exactly zero MySQL experience).
> >
> > So, how would you go about getting a good computing experience out of an
> > older computer with a TV output?  What do people think would make a nice
> > window manager?  It would be kind of cool to get things like web-browsing
> > or email up and running.  I'm kind of thinking some kind of non-window
> > based interface would be cool, like what you see on palm devices and such.
> > As well as locking it down to nice big fonts that can be easily read on a
> > TV screen.
> >
> > So what do people think?  At the moment its primary function is to grab
> > movies and stuff off of my NFS and play them throught the TV, but I'm sure
> > there is potential for it to be so much more!
> >
> > Inspire me!  ;-)
> >
> >         Tom
> >
> >
> --
> Luke Albers
> Electrical Engineering
> Georgia Institute of Technology
> gtg940r@mail.gatech.edu
> 
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