When flying back from Oz on Air NZ, my entertainment machine in the
headseat need a restart... I was able to follow the full linux boot
messages as they went past.. enough to know that they shouldn't be getting
all the errors they were...time for an upgrade/fix :-)
Pete
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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!
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Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell
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