Er. Am I the only one to comment that this is a refreshing change to all the displays in shops, airports, etc that show the many ways that Windows errors and BSODs?
Linux on the desktop? Hell no, it's on 80' billboards.
(It's not Arch btw)
Since the Raspberry Pi has been released it's pretty common.
Running Windows for digital signage always struck me as an absolute waste of computing power. Just shove some low power Linux SBC into it and forget about it for about a decade or so
A lot of the time, the whole company that runs the signage uses Windows, and the signage just uses one of their standard PCs with their standard Windows image. They probably already have a bunch of spares. Makes it easier for IT if they don't have to support another configuration.
I just said "You know when Linux has taken over the world? When you don't see blue screens on billboards."
I mean, we have systemd-bsod now...
Not that I've ever seen it of course.
Same here, was at the airport just last week and saw two screens running windows, absolute joke.
Looks like systemd to me
that is the exact opposite of systemd: sysvinit
you can recognize it by the iconic makefile line in the output, which indicates the setting CONCURRENCY=makefile has been chosen.
It booted into a GUI afterwards, and had grub installed.
You would have seen Grub way before this screen.
It did and it went by so fast I couldn't take a pic.
Maybe he did, and took a picture later.
You time travel like a wizard.
Not necessarily Debian
But systemd for sure!
Hardly the wilds: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Gw2aiyPXBCL8jJhV8
Wow, did the place change in two years. That blue building just SHOT up there.
I refuse to believe that Nova Scotia is a real place
It's in Canada. Which is on Earth! Which is in Canada.
I was gonna say that it looks like every Linux install I've ever booted... But then I realized 90% of them have been Debian or Debian-based 😅
Every systemd-based distro should look like that indeed
Linux is also used on billboards now? Nice
Always has been
I think I saw Windows on billboards and projectors a few times in my country. Don't remember seeing Linux much
Maybe because Linux rarely die?
I wonder if this being a digital billboard is actually cheaper than just hiring some workers to swap out the printed advertisement every, I dunno how often they normally change, week or so?
The benefit is being able to display 3+ different ads on rotation that change every minute or two. That, and labor is cheaper when they're not 50ft off the ground
Labour is expensive
I like the security camera pointed at the billboard, like someone's gonna steal it.
Probably for spray paint or other damage. Or maybe for identifying when it fails
Or maybe for identifying when it fails
That's it exactly.
looks like it's starting cron? I'm assuming that's debian/ubuntu then.
Could be anything else, but if i had to posit a likely guess that would be mine.
Nova Scotia is looking a bit ROUGH though.
the wilds of Nova Scotia
Walking across the Windsor Street exchange is wild for sure.
They have a cross walk now, I feel so safe now.
Reminds me of the garbage can that keeps crashing at the Tim Horton's downtown
That looks like a network issue.
Guess the screen is too small to see the error on the bottom? Geez, they need a bigger screen?
Why billboard system would have sane installed? I don't think Debian or derivatives install it by default. Vnstat is also a bit odd, but maybe that's just me. I assume they have multiple of these displays around and for them it would make more sense to use something more centralized, like zabbix, to monitor the whole network (obviously they could do that too).
assume they have multiple of these displays around and for them it would make more sense to use something more centralized, like zabbix
The one I saw a decade ago yielded SNMP to solarwinds (I know I know) rather well, but they mainly used PING on it to see when the radio link died.
Fancy that -- when the parks n rec sites were converted to e-billboards, they had power but no net line, and "radio's fine". Show me an old linux billboard host and I'll show you a canvas my inner child can't wait to e-graffiti.
This is almost certainly Ubuntu server
It could literally be anything
It's "Debian", btw.
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