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Dashboard Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the segmentation-fault-call-insurance-company dept.

zebziggle writes "The dashPC has Global Positioning (GPS) and Navigation, DVDs, Games (Quake 3, SoF, UT), Address book database, etc. It can run any programs that will run on an Intel/AMD i686 class computer. There is a Basic Stamp micro-controller that interfaces the Linux box to the car ignition for controlled boot/shutdown." The article says Linux, but that screenshot tells a different story. The website has other stuff and a lot more pictures.

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  1. foorst poost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can it be troo?

  2. Cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is a very neat development indeed. I'm glad to see science progressing like this.

  3. Re:Firsjt Posjt! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Alas, I got the muthafuckin first poost on this one!!

  4. Re:Wow, a dashboard linux box running windows, ama by ethereal · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hmm, just like the Best Buy circular I got yesterday - the front was all about a Sony Vaio Pentium 4 with Windows XP, but of course the screen shot was showing Mac OS (and not OS X either). You may have seen it - the screenshot was an email program with a mail being composed about getting one of the new N'Sync bobble-head (there's a redundant statement) dolls. If technology companies can't get their ads straight, it's no wonder that the rest of the world is so confused about what's what.

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  5. Re:Jetta Coupe? by Scutter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wasn't very popular,

    Maybe it's your cologne. ;)

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  6. Windows: Unsafe At Any Speed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nader should have a field day with this one :P

  7. Re:Wow, a dashboard linux box running windows, ama by Bandman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >Hmm, just like the Best Buy circular I got
    >yesterday - the front was all about a Sony Vaio
    >Pentium 4 with Windows XP, but of course the >screen shot was showing Mac OS

    Are you sure??? I mean, there's not THAT much difference...

    :-)

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  8. TrollMaster 2001 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Lord of the Frost Pist!

    http://www.geocities.com/frostpist

  9. Re:Jetta Coupe? by Buran · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The Jetta coupe does exist as a concept only but isn't going to get built for the 4th generation A platform vehicles.

    The photo on the "features" page is a modified form of a photograph of that VW concept car . It was painted a lovely blue we don't get here in the US -- Jazz Blue. (A few Jazz Blue Golfs did make it as close as Canada, though. And you can get the color -- renamed -- on the Audi S4.)

    I can't seem to find a valid URL for the original photo at the moment, unfortunately.

    Jetta coupes existed for the first- and second-generation models only. They might come back for Generation 5, though. Who knows?

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  10. Re:Jetta Coupe? by milkmandan9 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Coupe? I can clearly see a rear door in the "pictures" section of the webpage (3rd row, 3rd pic over).

    They could be using two cars...but even in that case, at least one of them is a sedan.