Reminds me of the garbage can that keeps crashing at the Tim Horton's downtown
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That looks like a network issue.
And a storage issue as well maybe
The way I see it, it looks like it can't write the files because it can't fetch them from the network. Without a lot dump I may very well be wrong, though.
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.
I just said "You know when Linux has taken over the world? When you don't see blue screens on billboards."
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
Not necessarily Debian
But systemd for sure!
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
The digital ones are also visible at night so the advertiser gets more impressions and the billboard ad company can charge more.
So are the printed ones. They just have flood lights pointing at them.
Maybe Devuan or another Debian derivative.
My money is on Raspbian. Because it's very likely powered by a Raspberry Pi.
I refuse to believe that Nova Scotia is a real place
It's in Canada. Which is on Earth! Which is in Canada.
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.
I'm pretty sure that's just a light
Not much need to light a digital billboard.
Unless this is the world's most cryptic Debian ad, and that's actually printed on....
Damn, Linux distros are doing advertising now
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
It looks like my garuda startup
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).
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.
Looks like systemd to me
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.
Not Debian, it is how the arch Linux distros boot after the grub menu.
Debian can show it too you just need to remove quiet from the grub config.
So can most distros