A linux controller is needed.

The only 'sort of working' alternative for linux users is currently Janos. Great piece of work for which the programmer deserves a lot of brownie points, but in no way as feature complete as a native client would have to be. As it stands at the moment, I can only advise Linux users to look for manufacturers other than sonos.

I don't think that is an actual solution for the problem, namely there is no easy support for popular systems like Ubuntu. (A similar suggestion would be to run windows in a virtual box on your machine. Possible, but not a solution). So while I consider this offtopic, let me comment on it so we don't get a longer discussion about it 🙂 1. It is tricky to get it on a virtual device. The market isn't installed on the AVD by default, so you either need to get an AVD with pre-installed market, or you need to find a different way to get in in there. 2. The Sonos app isn't really happy about being installed on 'random' devices. It most probably won't install on your AVD from the market. See this thread for discussion (it escalates pretty quickly, not a pretty topic.): http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=24453&page=3 . Lets just say that it isn't sonos' intention to release the APK for this kind of hacking. It isn't _that_ hard to get the APK (basically, get yourself a rooted phone, install the app, backup it, and presto), but in the end you have to re-do all this once the updates come...
Nonsense -- who wants to want 3 minutes for virtual box to boot just so that you can play music. Usability fail.

Please add Linux support.

+1 for a linux controller!

+1 for linux support!

Obviously, as many of you already said, the lack of a Linux controller is a definite showstopper for me. I already have first-generation Sonos products, and I was planning to extend the system, but this will *not* happen without a Linux controller -- all my home PCs are Linux-based ...
Since Sonos doesn't seem to understand, I thinks we should all start searching for other solutions, and never mind them. They should soon see how many customers they're losing ...

Dear SONOS and Sonos fans, new year is coming and new challenges and opportunities.
Take care with both of them, do not miss good moments new market segments mentioned throughout this topic.
AND, do not miss following happenings other part of the world.
Sorry a bit for the website of this link but I found the only this news in English on the new award winning invention from a small town from Hungary.
http://www.hungarianambiance.com/2013/05/twenty-year-old-hungarian-student-won.html 

Take care new market challenges are coming as the new news indicating they this boy intends to build a factory producing speakers with very high sound quality. 
The support of your Sonos fans, including the Linux fans, could be very important for Sonos in the new years come.
Good luck.
Tamas

I am now advising the growing number of those of my clients who are linux users explicitly against the purchase of Sonos systems. It seems that with the introduction of Windows 8 and the end of support for XP many Windows users finally change to linux. The NSA scandal might have to do with that, too.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=29570
By chance, do you have success story with this?
I am failed, even if I tried to install the requested packages.

+1 for linux support!