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ComputerWorld: Linux 'Appliance' Serves Music Samples at [Wherehouse] StoresAug 04, 1999, 00:56 (6 Talkback[s])(Other stories by David Orenstein) Thanks to BR for this link. "Retailer taps open-source operating system to let shoppers hear any song on any CD "If Linux's brightest future is as a one-task "appliance" server, Wherehouse Entertainment Inc. is providing a glimpse of that future. "The music and video chain is testing a digital system that will allow customers to hear 45 seconds of audio from every song on every CD in the store's inventory, rather than listening to only preselected CDs on a rack. "In a report last month, Dataquest, a unit of Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Group Inc., projected that sales of Linux will be strongest in such task-specific roles..." |