Dragon Tau

History
For our Bed & Breakfast project, I had planned to construct and develop an in-house system to provide guests with all their media and communications needs through a single networked computer and screen.
Research uncovered the Fiire system (Fire Engine, Fire Station, etc) which ran Kubuntu with LinuxMCE. Having, finally, built a PC capable of handling video graphics, I installed Ubuntu 9 (jaunty) with the intent of trying out LinuxMCE only to discover it only runs on Kubuntu 7. They are porting it to Kubuntu 8, but as is my want, I want the latest and greatest. Seems clear to me that the project is either under staffed or the scope is too large.
The company offering the Fiire system, which was built on a previous project, produced all the networked hardware required for total media presentation as well as foraying into home automation. They have since disappeared. LinuxMCE seems to have ground to a halt also. Another system available is MMS (My Media System), which I tried, but managed to lose my sound.
As we are now intending to travel for a couple of years before settling down somewhere, the project has morphed into the RV project. This has also expanded the potential scope of the work.