Linux goes down the toilet

OPEN SAUCE operating system Linux will soon prove that it is no flash in the pan when it takes control of your toilet.

According to ZDNet in Australia, the country's biggest Linux conference will be seeing how the operating system has conquered the smallest room.

Linux.conf.au will hear Jonathan Oxer conducting a lecture with the appropriate title "Making Things Move" and will show how to hack everyday objects and then control them using software.

Oxer is in the process of building a new bathroom that is completely automated using Linux. Everything in the new bathroom is computer controlled or sensed. The window winders will be electric, as will the curtains. Sensors will include ambient light, humidity, temperature, motion, door position, toilet flush, water flow, flowing water temperature, bath water temperature and anything else he can think of.

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