Embedded Linux In Onkyo's Home Music Server

IrateSurf writes "ExtremeTech has a story about a new use of embedded Linux from Onkyo, which runs a home music server. Their NAS-2.3 has a CD-player as well as an 80GB hard drive for storing music and streaming it to other players on the an Ethernet network. Also check out the web site for the NAS-2.3." If only they would make it record radio, too ...

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does it matter what OS it's running?

[rtphokie]

mod this flamebait if you must but I gotta ask, what does it really matter what OS it's running?

It could run TRS-DOS for all I care as long as it gets the job done efficiently.

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[pompomtom]

Legal mp3's don't have to come off a $20 CD.

Check acidplanet.com mp3.com mp3.com.au spinwarp.com etc etc etc

There is a reason they choose Linux . .

[MrLinuxHead]

Onkyo is smart for using Linux. Nearly all the Pacific Rim (Sony, Pioneer, Panasonic, ect.) manufacturers are testing it or are ready to deploy because they don't need to pay out royalties per unit, can share innovations with each other, and can share data with each other's units over 100Mb Ethernet or 802.11x or whatever. The most important thing to remember is they don't need to spend huge amounts on R&D. Linux will become the Linga Franca of consumer electronics, unless Microsoft buys one of the big players and twists everyone's arm to go along. Maybe not even then, as the long term gains are too big. And most Japanese electronics manufacturers are thinking very long term.

And yes these babies are BIG! And HEAVY! At 110 RMS per CH. Thats 660 Watts out, all discrete. No output IC's. Not to mentions pre amp and video switching. Schwweett.

Inputs:

Audio and AV Inputs - 3/6

HDTV-Ready Component Video Input/Output - 2/1

Front-Panel Video Input (with S-Video) - Yes

S-Video Compatible Jacks Input/Output - 6/3

Digital Inputs:

5 Optical (1 Front Panel), 3 Coaxial

Digital Output - 2 Optical Amp In

RS-232 Control Port

IR In/Out - 1/1