Onkyo embeds Linux in your living room [ExtremeTech]
Jan 15, 2003 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — views
Onkyo has introduced a family of home theater equipment with built-in Ethernet ports and an embedded Linux operating system, according to this article at ExtremeTech. Loyd Case writes . . .
” . . . At first blush, the NAS-2.3 seems like a CD player, but it also has an embedded 80GB hard drive. So now it appears to be like any number of digital music players on the scene. But the NAS-2.3 also has a 10/100 Ethernet port, and is capable of acting as a music server to a network of Net-Tune devices. Running on the Integra product is an embedded Linux operating system, which acts as the server software . . .”
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