On Jul 2, 2015, at 6:35 PM, John R Pierce <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 7/2/2015 5:22 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>> If your car has a DIN 7736 bay, you can easily replace the existing head 
>> unit without redesigning the car.  This is directly equivalent to 
>> repartitioning and installing CentOS alongside Windows.
> 
> how many modern cars have DIN mount stereos anymore?

I covered that in my previous post: Crutchfield isn’t to blame for this 
situation any more than CentOS is for the UEFI+SB situation.  Blame Ford and 
Honda, Intel and Microsoft.

> then there's the wiring, you have to make up an adapter where one end is car 
> model specific, and the other end is stereo specific. and if the car has more 
> than 4 speakers, life gets more complex, you'll probably need to add in 
> additional amplification.

The skills and equipment you need to do this are directly analogous to those 
needed to repartition a Windows box for dual-boot.  The two cohorts are 
probably about the same order of magnitude in size, and somewhat overlapping.
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