The Idea
Turn e-smith into a simple to install, secure, highly scalable, Linux J2EE platform.
The concept would be very similiar to the existing Sun Cobalt server applicances, but would be more Java centric.
I just finished a a simple procedure for integrating JBoss with e-smith. All my thoughts can be found at... have a look.
http://www.missionvi.com/dev/jboss_esmith/