[ILUG] Re: System to boot, and display a web page

[Marcus Furlong]

On Thursday 07 February 2008 20:16 in
<200802072016.m17KGhcJ007753 at mail.deniscroombs.org>, Denis Croombs wrote:

> HI,
> 
> I am looking to build a very simple system to boot (any type of device can
> be used) and with no user login just display a web page which updated
> every 15 to 30 seconds.
> This can use any Linux dist as long as the requirements are met.
> 
> Any clues/good ideas ?

How about a small system on something from gumstix[1] or mini-itx[2] running
openembedded[3]?

[1] http://gumstix.com/products.html
[2] http://www.mini-itx.com
[3] http://www.openembedded.org

Openembedded provides the framework for building minimal custom distros for
embedded devices. Also supports cross-compiling on a host machine, so a
minimal distro can be (re-)compiled very quickly.

Regards,
Marcus.