Linux for Suits - The Sound of Linux
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by Doc Searls
posted 2006-01-26
Getting wowed by the Linux-based Sonos Digital Music System
On November 25, 2005, I wrote “Building an Open source House” on the Linux Journal Web site. Mostly, I was looking for some last-minute (or -week) advice about equipment and wiring before we put up sheetrock at the new house we’re building. We should be in the house by the time you read this. It will be our seventh home in seven years, and hopefully our last for a long time.
It’s a dream home on a Santa Barbara hillside overlooking the town and the ocean. It’s also a Faraday cage, with 11 tons of steel girders inside its walls and under its decks, thick fieldstone and stucco on its exterior and a roof of solid copper. It’s not a reception-friendly place for an old radio freak like myself—but hey, some compromises are easy to make…
