that's something i considered, but i also wanted to take the opportunity to learn more about creating a tight knit distribution. i could see a lot of appliances coming out of these rpi like devices, there definitely needs to be a tight distribution purpose built for people who want to build appliances similar to mine. i've also always had this task burning in my list of things to do to do an lfs type project.

my device connects to any hdmi enabled tv and provides a digital scoreboard for sports, basically i'm running a chromium browser (via electron) and autostarting that when the device starts. the device is then controlled by an ios app. i ended up using ubuntu-mate, but i don't think i even need gnome, maybe something along the lines of windowmaker, flux, or lightdm would do. i need to save microsd space so that i can have users upload media like images and video, and ubuntu mate really hogs up 4G and above which forces me to have to supply a larger microsd card which ups the total cost.