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  1. 04-12-2004, 10:00 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by hijinks21
    i have already made a custom linux distro for my old python app. Once we release xcar I will suit it to that. It installs at around 400 megs and booted on my amd 800 in around 20 seconds.

    hopefully xcar gets off the ground... if it does i'm using 2.6 and i think i can get the boot time down to 15ish


    I made a custom distro for my car (when I still had it installed) and had it booting in around 20 seconds. When I put 2.6 on this distro the boot dropped by 6 seconds. and as for the GPS problem I am trying to add features to roadmap and it seems very promising. Linux is for every one, they just don't realize it yet
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  2. 04-12-2004, 10:07 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by mespork
    I made a custom distro for my car (when I still had it installed) and had it booting in around 20 seconds. When I put 2.6 on this distro the boot dropped by 6 seconds. and as for the GPS problem I am trying to add features to roadmap and it seems very promising. Linux is for every one, they just don't realize it yet

    very nice.. hopefully if xcar gets off the ground all us linux people can get together and make a killer setup for everyong to realize it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by frodobaggins
    Back on the bottle again Sj ?

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    Perhaps there was a 15 minute time period I did but oh well.


    My whole deal with the Os is we have alot of talented people here and if we just combine everyone's skill together we could have a killer install. Plus it would be a smaller footprint on drive space so people could use cf or just a smaller cheaper drive. Our group as a whole will increase because people would have set install that will pretty much be a install-n-play setup. Granted there are alot of problems with linux like gps and sat radio. But we can over come that.
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    thank you all for your help minus the useless post by sjlucky...
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    Everyone out there is sceptic. And I am not suprised. But I believe once someone does first step, the others will do the flow. And I also believe (keep the fingers crossed) XCar will be such first step.
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    Small footprint, Stable, strong, Linux is the answer yes, who is currently making advancements in GPS with the linux OS?
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    i think the best method would be to boot essential files that don't need writing from cf, and have mp3's and other stuff on a hard drive
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    Have been wondering why there was only one Linux based Carputer app (DashPC) - guess there are 2 including xcar. DashPC has a GPS using GPSDrive:

    http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at/

    Never used it, but seems limited in alot of ways compared to the commercial apps - but then it is free
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    Quote Originally Posted by SjLucky
    Did I ever stop?
    Perhaps there was a 15 minute time period I did but oh well.


    My whole deal with the Os is we have alot of talented people here and if we just combine everyone's skill together we could have a killer install. Plus it would be a smaller footprint on drive space so people could use cf or just a smaller cheaper drive. Our group as a whole will increase because people would have set install that will pretty much be a install-n-play setup. Granted there are alot of problems with linux like gps and sat radio. But we can over come that.
    What development language are you using for XCar?
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    Quote Originally Posted by HybridEngineer
    What development language are you using for XCar?
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