What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? 322
colinneagle writes "Bryan Lunduke recently pulled together a collection of the weirdest places he's found Linux, from installations in North Korea and the International Space Station to a super-computer made out of Legos and computer engineer Barbie. Seen any weird places for Linux not mentioned in this list?"
Pizza place (Score:4, Interesting)
Like many others, I had several shitty jobs during college. One of those jobs was delivering pizzas for Papa John's. Running in the office of our store was a desktop computer with some really locked-down Linux on it that was limited to running some awful console program and a PDF viewer.
Toronto Parking Meters (Score:4, Interesting)
At the Toronto Linux Users Group I heard a story about how the parking meters used to crash because some setting would randomly kill processes when Linux was running low on memory.
The strangest place? (Score:5, Interesting)
I once saw Linux on some average users desktop. Total non-techie, and there he was using Ubuntu.
Coffee Machine (Score:2, Interesting)
Just the other day the coffee machine in my office rebooted, and it is running Linux under the hood. One of these http://www.cafection.com/en/products/innovation-series/total-1.
Also a pizza place (Score:4, Interesting)
I was at a Chuckecheese with the kids for one of their friends birthday parties when one of the machines freaked out...
It was a photobooth that took your picture, and then made a sketch like version of your picture and printed it out for you..
When the employee came to reset it, I got to see either Redhat or Cent boot up.. Somewhere I've got a picture..
Multimedia overlay on ruins in Rome (Score:4, Interesting)