Re:Chumby is back
by ChuckMcM on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @05:05PM
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I've been in contact with Duane, I would be really curious as to what the international IP's were doing exactly. One of my Chumbys lived briefly on the Internet and a number of things tried to hack it but for the most part it has been reasonably safe. I did use the SSH option to go in and get a better firewall running on it.
Like you I think the Chumby is a great 'viewer' into things digital. Whether it is the time, my calendar, or whatever. My long neglected project is a Ubuntu with a DirectFB driver and the QT4 widget set. I'm going to have to see what it will take to bring that back. Robert Nelson has an excellent toolchain/process for building images for these things and ARM Linux has gotten a lot better in the last half decade.
Like you I think the Chumby is a great 'viewer' into things digital. Whether it is the time, my calendar, or whatever. My long neglected project is a Ubuntu with a DirectFB driver and the QT4 widget set. I'm going to have to see what it will take to bring that back. Robert Nelson has an excellent toolchain/process for building images for these things and ARM Linux has gotten a lot better in the last half decade.