Living in the Age of Linux

"The Orange Liveradio gives you access to 4000+ worldwide internet stations and in addition to a wide range of podcasts and audio books. The great thing about Orange Liveradio is that no PC is required when you are listening to your internet radio stations. All you need is a Wi-Fi router and broadband internet access.

"The software technology behind such a device is pretty trivial: you just need a media player and an operating system. Now, there's no information on the LiveRadio site about what the latter might be, but there's a pretty good chance it's some flavour of Linux..."

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