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A Serious Contender for the Couch Throne

Posted by Zonk on from the tux-in-unusual-places dept.

TractorJector writes "It is no secret that the competition for global domination in the operating system market has moved from the desktop to the living room couch. The Olive Symphony, a Linux-powered hi-fi wi-fi stereo hub, stands a decent chance for a prime position before the living room throne."

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  1. Also known as Hifidelio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Visit http://www.hifidelio.net/
    Looks really rather similar :)

    These guys (hermstedt) need a good kicking at the moment because they are up to version 2.0 of their firmware and still have not released source code.

    Putting that to one side, I have one of these and it really is rather good.

  2. This thing is seriously overpriced ! by The_Spectry · · Score: 3, Informative

    Whats it consist of ? A hard drive , a basic display ,a cheap MB , and a cd rom . Sound familiar ? It should Those are all components of an XBOX minus the screen . SO figure a display might cost $100 to implement . How much does an XBOX cost ? Is it cool? Yes. Is it worth $899 ? NO . I just bought a laptop from dell for less than that . The price makes it laughable .

  3. Who is Christian Einfeldt? by Eil · · Score: 4, Informative


    TractorJector writes "It is no secret that the competition for global domination in the operating system market has moved from the desktop to the living room couch.

    I was about to say, "No, TractorJector didn't write that. It was cut and pasted verbatim from the first sentence of the article. Have the common decency blah blah blah." But hmm, now this is odd. It seems that every Slashdot story that TractorJector has submitted has been a Mad Penguin article by Christian Einfeldt.

    Christian Einfeldt, if you are indeed TractorJector or are affiliated with Mad Penguin in some way, please have the monads to disclose in your Slashdot submissions that you're the one who wrote the article. Really, it's okay to pimp your own stuff one the web. Everybody does it now that blogging is the current fashion. But submitting the articles under a pseudonym (especially ones with naive editors, like Slashdot) is just a wee bit underhanded and deceitful.