PDA

View Full Version : A cool Linux discovery



raublekick
November 6th, 2005, 04:49 AM
I don't know if this is well known or not, but it was news to me.

I was at the bar last night playing one of those MegaTouch machines. It wasn't MegaTouch but it was the same concept. Anywasy, there was a "Credits" button, so we touched it, and at the end it thanks Linux, Xfree86, and some other opensource stuff.

Anyone else find things out there that are Linux powered?

racecat
November 6th, 2005, 05:13 AM
I've recently heard that Axis IP cameras (a security camera with a built in server) and one digital video recorder (I don't remember the manufacturer) use Linux.

Bill

kvidell
November 6th, 2005, 05:32 AM
If you look in the manual for the Sony PSP it thanks the BSD Group and some other people, along with the guys who put together MPlayer.
- K

Sirin
November 6th, 2005, 12:07 PM
TiVO uses Linux. :razz:

Brunellus
November 6th, 2005, 02:20 PM
If you look in the manual for the Sony PSP it thanks the BSD Group and some other people, along with the guys who put together MPlayer.
- K
the irony is amusing. this, from a company that utterly frowns on homebrew developers.

23meg
November 6th, 2005, 02:25 PM
When I take the underground early in the morning and late at night I see Linux booting up / shutting down on the LCD displays used to display ads and news, both in the stations and in the trains.

BWF89
November 6th, 2005, 02:32 PM
Lowes Home Improvement runs Linux on their computers.

frühstück
November 6th, 2005, 02:53 PM
http://www.uploadhouse.com/images/8763573941.jpg
http://www.uploadhouse.com/images/4902266812.jpg
http://www.uploadhouse.com/images/9151346153.jpg
http://www.uploadhouse.com/images/2083584574.jpg
http://www.uploadhouse.com/images/9021407295.jpg

cstudent
November 6th, 2005, 03:05 PM
I work for a company that is a vendor of arcade amusement games, like kiddie rides, prize cranes and video games. Virtually all the machines are powered with Linux. We also do the Megatouch and Touchtunes machines. Some of the popular video games right now are the Golden Tee golf game, Silver Strike bowling, Big Buck Hunter Call of the Wild and Fast & Furious. All of these are Linux driven.

Bill

Lovechild
November 6th, 2005, 03:15 PM
Many of the inflight entertainment systems on airplanes are Linux powered.

Famously the Nokia 770 runs not only Linux but it uses the GNOME stack.

majikstreet
November 6th, 2005, 04:59 PM
TiVO uses Linux. :razz:
I never knew that...

This is so neat that so many things run linux!

TravisNewman
November 6th, 2005, 05:05 PM
a lot of those quick photo booth things use linux. I saw one on a redhat grub prompt once, and I saw one totally crashed with an xfree86 error once

Master Shake
November 6th, 2005, 11:18 PM
There's a Tux Racer arcade game...

http://www.icegame.com/GameDetail.aspx?ProductID=73

Saw one at Enchanted Castle, Lombard IL last year.

izmaelis
November 6th, 2005, 11:31 PM
I saw Linux booting on a monochromatic LCD display of a cash register in some mart.

poofyhairguy
November 6th, 2005, 11:41 PM
Famously the Nokia 770 runs not only Linux but it uses the GNOME stack.

Motorola phones

http://news.com.com/Linux+moves+into+midrange+Motorola+phones/2100-7344_3-5772412.html?tag=nl

gw90se
November 7th, 2005, 02:34 AM
It seems most of the Digital video recorders for the security camera industry use linux. Fuuny thing though, most of their remote viewing software is only written for IE or Windows. So, the mechanics need dependability, but the user interface needs commonality.

ltmon
November 7th, 2005, 03:35 AM
If you live in Melbourne, AU you've no doubt seen the new displays at each tram stop with the tram timings displayed (when they're connected that is).

I saw one of these boot up, and it seemed to be knoppix based. It had that little penguin in the top left of the screen during boot-up, which I think is a Knoppix thing. It was hard to tell because the screen is actually upside-down (it flips 180 degrees when X starts).

L.

E-werd
November 7th, 2005, 04:10 AM
Not sure if this counts... but a major computer at Kmart (where I work) and all the cash registers run a version of Unix

fuscia
November 7th, 2005, 04:33 AM
i can hardly wait until iHoP starts using one of these...

http://nin.co-i60.com/Forums/stuff/netbsd.jpg

benplaut
November 7th, 2005, 05:40 AM
Many of the inflight entertainment systems on airplanes are Linux powered.

Famously the Nokia 770 runs not only Linux but it uses the GNOME stack.

NorthWest's personal ones don't... on a flight to amsterdam, the things went into a reboot loop, showing us on each of our screens... it was running Win NT :rolleyes: (it never ended up working on that flight :mad: )

i inadvertantly got one of the Borders kiosks running (they run linux, at least some of them :) ) -- i needed to look up a book, and it was stuck starting some random process on boot. a quick ctrl+c got it going :)

TravisNewman
November 7th, 2005, 06:19 AM
If you live in Melbourne, AU you've no doubt seen the new displays at each tram stop with the tram timings displayed (when they're connected that is).

I saw one of these boot up, and it seemed to be knoppix based. It had that little penguin in the top left of the screen during boot-up, which I think is a Knoppix thing. It was hard to tell because the screen is actually upside-down (it flips 180 degrees when X starts).

L.
it's not just knoppix. A lot of the older builds of distributions did this, and a lot of the new ones do too.

teddy69
November 7th, 2005, 06:50 AM
HP dv1000 type laptops (like mine) have QuickPlay which is a Linux system that allows you to play DVDs and MP3s without booting the actual OS, I didn't know this till I tried finding out what that strange 200 meg partition was doing on my disk while installing SuSE long ago

YourSurrogateGod
November 7th, 2005, 06:56 AM
Excellent, open source wolrd domination plan is progressing nicely :twisted: .