MeeGo (Nokia) launched such a distro. Its basically a platform for developing mobile/notebook apps to run on ARM. See http://meego.com/downloads/releases/in-vehicle On 9 November 2010 07:58, Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com> wrote:
It would be wise to know the underlying (maybe EEPROM) chip: ARM, PIC, Motorola,etc and the board supporting it. With the right reprogramming software, I'm sure its possible. But rather than "hacking", get an ARM11 MPCore....then you can do all fancy stuff with it...I'm sure there's an embedded linux distro that supports it...
Bernard
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com
wrote:
Are the embedded In-dash GUI systems (we get them in Japanese, for X-Japan imports) reprogrammable? Can we be able to reuse the hardware by flashing out the automotive OEMs(in Japanese) and installing an embedded Linux solution(made in Kenya using available opensource UI toolkits) providing readable applications(in English and Swahili) and depending with its capabilities provide Navigation applications, entertainment, wireless telephony, Internet connectivity, remote productivity, and other in-car applications? - a in-dash GUI system with built-in bluetooth can provide an interesting array services by dialling into the internet using your bluetooth enabled phone.
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