you should take a look at the Linksys NSLU2. These are designed as a Network storage device, they are a little box with two USB ports and a ethernet connection. Out of the box they run linux from flash and by design you attach one or two USB hard drives, connect it to your network and BANG two samba based file serving for your network.
But of course they have been hacked (in the benign sense of the word) and you can do all sorts with them. The main distro appears to be unslung, and people are certainly using it as a media server and similar applications. References: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ The cost is under $200 NZ Sound cards and cameras and hard drives can all connect via USB, so take a good look[1]. Heres a wireless project using a camera: http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/gphoto/remote.html [1] Bear in mind that these devices are not x86, so you'd need to know what software will actually work. On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 21:32 +1200, G Chinnery wrote: > Hi list. > > I consider myself a linux newbie still, so would like pointers to > information on a project I am considering trying. > My idea is a dedicated audio visual setup on an embedded device with a > modified version of linux as its O/S. > I have seen versions of what I am thinking but it has a MS O/S as its > base and I not interested in going that way. > I know that the linux O/S will have to be stripped and modified to work > so will need help there but I just looking at feasibility at the moment > before even starting. > The basic system would be a solid-state device with external devices > attached. I.E. Hard drive, cameras and some kind of interface to a sound > system. > > Any help with pointers to sites along these lines would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Graeme. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
