[sapphire_tomb]

There have been a number of attempts at this over the years with Rockbox (not sure about recent years though as I no longer hang out in the dev channel on freenode). All of them came to naught eventually though.

[kop316]

Well one thought is seeing if the Pine Community would be interested in working on this.

They seem to be in the business of making Linux style things, and I wonder if this would be up their alley.