Matt, That looks like a pretty close match! Not 100% obviously though. I made a blueprints article (hopefully that's the right place) for my idea and expanded a little. You can see that it's based off of my initial email:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntu-systems-manager Do you think it's realistic to offer suggestions like these so that they can be incorporated as future goals of moblin-image-creator? There's a lot to do with deploying to specific devices for which it would be nice to have some high level tools take care of spinning up the actual distribution of mobile linux. Devices could have profiles which define options as to how one can set up the OS, how one can get it onto the device and what really can be installed. I realize it might be left up to the device manufacturers to maintain their respective distributions, but I'm thinking also for the sake of PDAs and PCs which might need some tricks to get linux on them. I also think not offering a generic distro of Ubuntu mobile that can go on each device might present a moving-target issue. Lots of commercial tools (MS) tend to offer some really tight "here, let me handle the device for you" utilities. An important note is that I think this should be 100% apathetic towards the device and platform being targeted. So if I wanted to, I could choose to use the compact UIs on a PC just by specifying the right options. Or the other way around ;) The whole idea of basing this off of existing .deb source packages and cross compiling seems neat to me. I could blabber on for ages, but I bet it would get mobile & embedded ubuntu tons more appeal if the tools evolved to this level. _________________________________________________ Alexander Trauzzi
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