I am looking at building a Emulation PC. Essentially, I will use UBUNTU, a variety of emulators, and 4 or so USB controllers, connected the computer to a TV to make a home Emulator computer.

I want to set up Ubuntu, so that at startup it automatically opens a front end (maybe like this http://sourceforge.net/projects/emufe/) to allow launching of emulators and games.

I wanted to know, are there some similar projects you have seen? I have searched around, and maybe I didnt use the right phrase... but I couldn't find anything.

Furthermore, is there a reason Ubuntu is a bad idea for this?

Thanks