I am trying to investigate how to develop an UI application that will run directly on hardware. This will be very much like when you access the web based application within your router.
I don't really know how what keywords and terminology to use so that i can search tutorials on the net.
Can anybody give me the correct terms? If you have tutorial suggestions, they are welcome as well.
Appliance is another term along with Yagoo's embedded. Typically hardware appliances run full stacks including LAMP.
Many appliances are based off of stripped down Linux or FreeBSD kernels running Apache or a lightweight httpd.
There are actually specific Linux distributions that are tuned for this. Google "linux appliance distribution" and "small linux distribution"
Be advised, if it is commercial, Linux and the GNU stack may present an issue you must deal with, depending on how it is modified. FreeBSD does not have this license limitation.