Has any one used any of these boards in a project?
What has been the experience?
How well do these boards lend themselves to exploitation in tuff environment like automotive?
What are the drawbacks?
Which distro of Linux should be used?
I have use an embedded board that consist of Via chipset with similar setup to one of the PICO ITX boards.
I have attached a hard drive and install Windows XP but I am sure you can install Ubuntu Linux into a compact flash. Pity it was a bit slow with write and read speed.