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What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux?

Posted by timothy on from the upside-down-mig-while-communicating dept.

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?"

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  1. Toronto Parking Meters by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  2. The strangest place? by Joe+U · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I once saw Linux on some average users desktop. Total non-techie, and there he was using Ubuntu.