Building an Open-Source House | Linux Journal

Building an Open-Source House | Linux Journal:

Our Senior Editor puts years of home-renovating experience to work in planning computing, networking, RF, audio and video in his family's \'ultimate\' house.

We're building our last house. I hope.

By sometime in January or February of next year, we will have lived in seven different places, two on the Peninsula in the Bay Area and five in Santa Barbara. Our last is the first house we've built from the ground up. All the others were remodels or rentals we occupied while we were buying or remodeling our next home.

The purpose has been strategic. Buying, improving and reselling has been a way to improve our current abode, as well as a way to make money in a market that has only gone up.

This next place, however, should be our last. Enough moving, already.

It is, as you might expect, our Dream Home.

My fantasy here has been, from the start, to make it as Linux-y as possible. That is, open in architecture and welcoming to modifications and additions--especially in the technology department.