internet radio driver

[Thufir Hawat]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:04:13 -0200, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Thufir Hawat <hawat.thufir at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:35:39 -0200, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Thufir Hawat <hawat.thufir at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I'm thinking of buying a stand-alone internet radio.  Just wondering
>>>> whether they have lotsa features which require windows drivers?  Of
>>>> course, I'm sure you can turn it on and listen to something quite
>>>> easily, just wondering about additional features.
>>>
>>> Like running perhaps Ubuntu OS?
>>
>> Well, right, sorta.  I mean, are they completely OS agnostic?
>>
> Although I never met one of these, not personally, sure they have
> ethernet connections not to feel so (stand) alone, but I'd be very
> surprised if any of them could do much more than their expected
> functions, which do not include running your preferred Ubuntu release,
> unless you find a very clever way to plug in your keyboard, monitor,
> etc. to their single USB port, and make them work. But then, why don't
> you just open Rhythmbox, find a nice internet radio station just like
> this: http://www.radioswissjazz.ch/en/webradio , and save your 150 bucks
> (at Amazon) to buy a good speaker system?
> 
> --
> L M Nicolosi, Eng.
> GNU-Linux Regist. User #481505 - http://counter.li.org/ Ubuntu 10.10
> AMD64



The reason I asked are for the "little" things like:

linux.gif Squeezebox Server v7.5.3
http://www.mysqueezebox.com/download

which, quite nicely, has a little penguin :)
There's even a penguin on the box!

Apparently, it's to stream music from the pc to the radio.  I was more 
concerned about configuration, but there's usually some software to 
install for most devices.


-Thufir