This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This series of segments features Linux sysadmin wizard Marc Merlin. Marc has worked for some of the big Silicon Valley Linux companies as a Linux sysadmin and engineer, and so you might expect him to apply his code magic to areas of his personal life, but wait until you see what he does. Marc wired his entire house with Linux, Free Open Source Software, and scripts he wrote to remotely control audio and video, as well as control lighting and other devices throughout his house. Maybe we can't all wire our homes the way that a wizard like Marc can, but Marc's experience wiring his home are a small example of the freedom to explore that is offered by Free Open Source Software. As our very own DTP video software technician, Jonathan Grindstaff says in his own interview, with proprietary tools, you can get creative with the features that are offered. With Free Open Source Software, you can just imagine what you want to do, and then create new features. The sky's the limit. Marc Merlin shows us that you can virtually build anything you'd like in your house with Free Open Source Software.

Some of this footage is dark, and will be made lighter during post production. We have lots and lots of footage, so we don't want to do post-production work on all of our footage all at once, since rendering hogs lots of resources. We are going to save post-production rendering resources for the footage that is actually included in the film, since we will probably want to make lots of changes to the footage, and you always want to render as much as possible all at once. So in the meantime, you can still enjoy the audio of the darkest footage, and not all of it is dark anyway.

If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at einfeld@gmail.com. Your work will be credited and posted on this page.

The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at digitaltippingpoint.com.

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