[HLUG] Group Project - Suggestions please

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Mark Broadbent wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>It was suggested at the last meeting that we should have a group
>project.  This would give us something to focus on during meetings and
>help everybody improve their Linux knowledge and skills.
>
>The following two suggestions have been made:
>
>Tim suggested that we build an in-car MP3 player based on Linux, there
>is already a distribution that is tailored for type of application
>called CMMS.  We already have a diverse skill set in the group for a
>project like this.
>
>
>BoX has offered an old dual-processor server to the group that we could
>built our own Linux system on using Linux from Scratch.  Great
>opportunity here the grapple with and understand the most basic parts of
>a Linux system.
>
>Any more suggestions are more than welcome, in fact positively
>encouraged! :-)
>
>Cheers
>Mark
>
>CMMS: http://cmms.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cmms.cgi?page=information
>LFS:  http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
>
>  
>
Mark All of this sounds Good to me!! I can see if he local firm by me 
who buy X-office PCs and sell them on will give us some freebies
Tim