Has anyone tinkered around with the idea of making Conman available on some platform other than Windows? I think it would be great to be able to run Conman on something like Linux or BSD, or even Solaris. Seems to me running such a service on an 'appliance' like host(no monitor/keyboard/mouse) would be just the ticket.

Jason-
Yep. There sure has. I think it would be a great idea.