I'd love to have a linux-based photo frame, especially since what I'd really like to do is use SSH or something to copy images into it through a login session or a cron job, or even just mount an NFS (or Samba) volume from one of the other computers in the house and simply rotate through images in the remote (but in-house) directory. Doing the same with music is just as easy. At that point, the pictures could then be tailored dynamically by the remote NFS server, and the iGala would just rotate through whatever was present. Simple and powerful. And little need for an SDK, since Linux pretty much is one already.

Being able to mount a filesystem over wireless would also allow having a bunch of additional libraries and commands available, rather like the old style of mounting a remote /usr partition onto a workstation with a small or no harddrive. I could even see someone running X on it that way, and then using it as a really elegant display for virtually an X output application - especially cpu load gadgets, network monitoring displays, RSS feed displays, pretty graphics synched to music, the Life cellular automaton, etc.

I don't know which version of Linux you have in there, although I'd expect a pretty small one. I'd love some details of which one it is, and what the package list is, whether its something esoteric or just a super-stripped down Ubuntu install, whether there's external USB (read: disk space expansion, keyboard, etc) and so on. Even just one working USB port provides a wide, wide range of expansion options. And even if it's a tiny version of Linux read off of ROM (which does limit some of the crazier support calls), if it could PXE boot and load an OS dynamically from the network, it would still be very flexible.

I'd kinda like to use it for a DHCP/DNS server, while it's still serving up pictures. :-)

Is there any such documentation available?