cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/35939350
Airport advertising sign, looks like they forgot to make the looping video full screen.
wooo! Ubuntu!
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Who runs a full desktop on these things
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Linux is pretty common in embedded devices. For example information screens in buses in my city (Kraków) which display stuff like next stops, OSM map, time, etc. run some kind of customized Linux distribution I think, and you can often see bunch of Tuxes along with console output when it boots up.
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It's literally in every display you see in the world. OEMs stopped fucking with Windows years ago.
Go to any fast food restaurants with those vertical displays? Linux.
Check-in kiosks that have been deployed in the past 5 years? Linux.
Your router, most platforms you interact with online, media devices, cars (they should be using RTOS, but many use Debian), movie theaters, POS systems...
Linux is the most deployed OS on this planet by far. I'm kind of annoyed when people don't realize this.
I actually hate when engineers are just letting a desktop sit like this. It's sloppy and unnecessary.
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They had to reset my screen in the airplane once, booted into Linux too 👍🏼
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a kinda old Ubuntu version ngl.
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With Microsoft destroying it's reputation for very long device support, I can only imagine they've also destroyed all trust in them from the embedded devices and outdoors hardware industry. These machines don't get a lot of updates and it would suck to have to throw them away because software support ended.
Imagine running thunderbird and firefox on an info board
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cual aeropuerto es eso?
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that's Ubuntu 18
In my city's history, there's a TV that has a TV box running Ubuntu. It's always on the home screen
I think my bus runs openbsd or Linux too!
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Loooooooooooooooong Boi 🐧
Ubuntu
Ew.
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I rather kms than install ubuntu.
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