The 'bus station displays were at one time. I saw a Linux kernel crash message displayed on one of them a few years back.
2010/1/16 David Lowe <[email protected]> > Hope the eyesight is OK Nick... > > Yes it's all around us. Noel Leeming stores have a locked-down terminal > with a web browser that look a but like Firefox, running on top of some > Linux distro. > > - David > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I went into specsavers the other day to get a copy of an invoice for >> my insurance company. Sat down at computer with assistant and she went >> through several screens, it soon became apparent that she was not >> using windows. >> >> Invoice info etc was all via a browser (firefox) and invoice came up >> in openoffice writer so she could print it. While she was off at the >> printer I clicked an icon that said "my computer" or suchlike. The >> file system was definitely *nix, it had var opt and dev directories (I >> couldn't linger as the printer wasn't far away.) >> >> She knew nothing about what was underlying the software she used. It >> may have been any unix variant, but it was great to see something that >> wasn't windows! >> > > -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
