I never said I wanted to buy the PhatBox. I just wanted to share the fact that VW is selling them, and that Linux is making headway in the embedded space and WinCE (appropriate name) is not. ;)
Concerning Zaurus as a media player: it works great! It has a combo headphone/microphone jack so you have to be careful when you buy a headphone. Storage is expensive though when considering CF cards, but daily uploads help with that. What I really like to do is get Festival running on it then I could listen to stored text on my daily commute. John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: will hill To: [email protected] Sent: 7/31/03 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] BRLUG Labs Report: VW now selling Linux based digital car audio s ystem But you already have a nice music tool, your Zaurus. Just load up a big CF and that other card with oggs from your music server and tie in a headphone jack to the aux line, if it has one. Your uploading and play can both be done by a randomizer or play list and you can do your uploading by wifi. You have already hacked your Zaurus and it has a good display. Think of how much CF you could buy for the price of a phat box and imagine the pain of DRM, which the M$ client is sure to force on you. On 2003.07.31 20:44 John Hebert wrote: [good phat box description] _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
