[Tfug] any Linux in-dash car audio tips?

[Benjamin Krein]

I just got a Nokia 770 and installed Canola on it.  There are several
YouTube videos floating around that demonstrate how useful a 770 w/
Canola can be as dash-mount audio device.  Unfortunately the 770 is
limited to RS-MMC media (which currently maxes out at 2GB), but it has
both 802.11g & Bluetooth which means you could be creative and stuff a
small media server in the trunk and use Bluetooth/wifi to stream the
media to the 770 mounted on the dash.  

The 770 runs a variation of Debian and is incredibly easy (and fun) to
hack.  It also serves most of the purposes of a PDA, but with an
incredibly beautiful screen!  Be warned, it's no speed-demon, but it
does what it's supposed to do (and as I said, is incredibly hackable).

Ben

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 09:40 -0700, rfs_lists at mac.com wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2007, at 4:17 pm, Andrew Halper wrote:
> 
> > The factory CD player in my car is on the fritz,
> 
> Assuming the T part of TFUG applies, your next one will go on the  
> fritz too, two years down the line. It gets *hot* in there. Get a  
> cheap head with line-in or a hacked (dead) CD changer and plug in an  
> old iPod running Linux. Slightly less convenient, but much less  
> landfill. Screens? Bah.