There has been some talk about folks implementing third-party programs on the Empeg, but requiring the shell prompt to activate them. For example, running Tetris.

Would it be possible to write a modified kernel which allowed limited choices at boot-up time? Perhaps with a graphic to display the choices? I know nothing about the way the kernel works and I don't know whether or not it can even choose what to launch. But at the very least, could it allow something like choosing whether or not to run the volume compression kernel?

The graphic could look like this or something:



Is this even possible at all using the current open-source kernel code?

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Tony Fabris