If you haven't dug that far into it yet, the empeg runs the Debian flavor of Linux.

Well, Debian is where we got the packages from but I wouldn't really say that anything about Debian covered in a specific Debian book would be an advantage. Although I have run apt-get on a car player it wasn't with the developer image we ship :-)

There is nothing really Debian specific about the developer image we provide - it was just a convenient source of pre-compiled binaries. Cross compiling a lot of things isn't easy!

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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)