Michael Golden wrote:
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 17:55, David Smith wrote:

Just got back from Smith's today (grocery store on Freedom Blvd). I didn't
notice it at first, but it appears that they are running some form of
X-Windows on their checkout monitors. If you look at the window border, it
looks just like fvwm. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Can't confirm or deny but I admit it is fun to see what different things
those sorts of things are running. In one airport I saw some computer
controlled lockers and it had a WinNT bluescreen showing. I hope they
didn't need to unlock any lockers. :) At the local Kroger in my hometown
in Georgia, their self-checkout things are also running some sort of
windows. (saw a blue screen there too). The information kiosks at the
Circuit City in Georgia were running linux but I don't remember which
obscure distro it was. The Continental Eticket machines ran OS/2 last
time I checked. (Not sure if this is still true). Fun stuff. :)
I can't confirm the smith's thing either, but I'm pretty sure I saw Burlington Coat Factory running Linux.

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