I remember messing with embedded development a while back using VIA mini-itx boards and LinuxBIOS (coreboot). Back then I had to have separate BIOS chips that I would swap out while the board was running--that was scary. GUI stuff was done using Embedded QT library, but support for accelerated video was spotty back then, which made everything slow. I think Coreboot has come a long way with video support. It might be worth a shot to get into that again just to see how hard it would be to get something like a thin client system going. Getting access to an open source BIOS presented a lot of opportunities for diskless devices that could be booted remotely in very little time. My project ended after I broke the carrier for the PLCC chip on my spare board and didn't feel like buying another board. Hopefully, someone has a tool that can rapidly image PLCC BIOS chips. Anybody have any nice tools like that?<div>
<br></div><div>How about a what tool do you have day?</div>