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- burnfromwithin, on 08/19/2008, -3/+71Linux should be the first choice for any public kiosk computers, due to the fact that it is much easier to lock them down and keep users from playing with things they shouldn't. There is also the whole not having to deal with viruses and spyware.
They are also more reliable and less prone to crashing. - schestowitz, on 08/19/2008, -16/+60BSoDs never inspire confidence when you try to sell a car.
- nestcrw, on 08/19/2008, -4/+32That is really surprising. Especially from a car dealership.
- inactive, on 08/20/2008, -0/+22"I’m waiting a few hours at the Thompson Toyota, my Prius is getting some minor work done to it to pass state inspection, it still takes a few hours. They have a wireless connection to the Internet, but even though last time I connected without problems this time my PII Debian system was not happy. So I checked out the bank of beat up Gateways with vagabond keyboards in the corner. I wiggle the mouse, and up pops the Ubuntu Heron! Wow! I can tell from the scribbled out tag that these are likely hand me downs from Thompson Lexus, I bet them bastards over there now have Vista. I expect that they just didn’t want to pay for Licenses, but I can do some work!
The neat part is that other people are actually using them. By default there are no icons on the desktop, so some people can’t find Firefox right away, but they find it. The card games seem most popular thought, at least today. I guess Ubuntu really is a user friendly system."
Seriously, that's the ENTIRE ARTICLE. - greensky, on 08/19/2008, -1/+22"as you can have it on a USB stick, CD, or hard disk and it resets its state at every boot."
You say that as if it's something Linux can't do. - hellahyphy, on 08/19/2008, -1/+19damnit! mirror please.
- 4DFX, on 08/19/2008, -1/+18Don't make me laugh.
- vawksel, on 08/19/2008, -1/+13You're right and wrong.
Right because it shouldn't be a big deal.
Wrong because it is a big deal that random businesses are using Linux desktop as a platform to work on, it's a first in a lot of ways. - Vadi0, on 08/19/2008, -1/+11Heh, your explanation does not help at all for Windows's side of things. It's still it that crashed.
Might as well get an OS with fewer, but higher-quality drivers =) - bweltondav, on 08/20/2008, -0/+10I'd say the best part is that it's actually free.
- kylethompson1, on 08/20/2008, -1/+11That game sucks. Why would they play it at Toyota? It deleted all my computers files when I tried to play it.
- ism70605, on 08/19/2008, -1/+10I think running Linux with a read only home folder on an NFS share would be a better solution for a kiosk. Let's not forget that it would be free. What would be good about running it off of a CD/flash drive? That would be slow.
- Phocion55, on 08/19/2008, -2/+1185%+ of the world's most powerful super computers run Linux.
http://www.top500.org/charts/list/31/osfam
That 'noteworthy' enough for you? - luchid, on 08/19/2008, -0/+7They use AIX in TONS of their servers.
- ism70605, on 08/19/2008, -0/+7I am a Linux fanboy, and I dugg him up. Both operating systems are about equal in stability. This, however, is not why I prefer Unices; I prefer Unices because of the design. Windows just feels badly designed after more than a decade of using Linux/Unices.
- Her3t1k, on 08/20/2008, -0/+6"beat up Gateways with vagabond keyboards" I love brilliant usage of language to describe the mundane.
- ToadLeg, on 08/19/2008, -7/+13"Probably keeps spyware and garbage ware off the computers"
Oh, cool, I'll just move my mouse in the direction of the digg up button while reading the rest of this comment:
"from all the salesmen looking a pr0n during their off hours...."
ABORT! digg down. - neko, on 08/20/2008, -0/+6I once had a motherboard on a 'headless' machine where the AGP slot died. X couldn't start anymore, naturally, but the rest of the machine kept working fine. A bit of hardware failure is no excuse to drop everything and scream hexadecimal error codes.
- Her3t1k, on 08/20/2008, -0/+6dugg for truthfulness. I'm still of the opinion that linux is a better system but ffs don't digg people down because you don't want to hear what they're saying. It reminds me of the playground: "LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA - CANT HEAR YOU - LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA "
- JakeW, on 08/20/2008, -1/+6and free
- randeepjalli0, on 08/20/2008, -0/+5I'll give you design;
A)as far as test, no they probably use some kind of a HA or HPC computer to do those calculations on a cloud,
B)Run robtics - lets see, if you're powering robotics would you want something like windows (Read x86 only)? NO, you want something that uses a RTK or probably something that runs something other than x86 windows can't do that.
C)Keep the inventory, lets see, depending on how big the dealership is, and how many other dealerships the owner has, this could go either way. See, if they use a proprietary inventory managment program then no, it probably won't run linux, but if they store it in a dedicated server that runs a database, it would make insane amounts of sense and CENTS to run linux, and seeing as how car dealers make big bucks(anywhere but the northeast), they pinch every penny.
D)Print their employee's checks....Most companies with over 50 employee's outsource their payroll, if they use ADP, then more than likely they run linux..or some other kind of alternative operating system. Maybe a BSD maybe Solaris, who knows...
In fact, if you use digg, YOU USE LINUX, not directly, but yes Digg runs on linux. Infact if you use the internet AT ALL, you have to go through a router at some point, I'm pretty sure level3 runs the BSD's. - inactive, on 08/19/2008, -3/+8mirrah, please
- theremixtrack, on 08/19/2008, -4/+8cause gas is so high they need to save money they lose on sales somewhere..
- MrDo, on 08/20/2008, -1/+5^_^ thaaanks ^_^
Smug level warning - Thirtysixway, on 08/20/2008, -1/+5server probably isn't running ubuntu... mirror?
- indie1982, on 08/20/2008, -0/+4http://www.zen.org.nyud.net/2008/08/18/ubuntu-at-t ...
You're not missing much though... - srg13, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3It's probably more likely that they were designed in some UNIX or UNIX-like operating system... Even more so for the robotics!
- oobuntu, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3My local B&Q diy store could do with this. Last week i saw a PC which is used by staff for stock checking, which had failed to boot windows because a crucial .sys file was missing
- flashmat, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3I'm 99.9% confident that it isn't.
I'd say it was Debian. - srg13, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3Wait, how does running Photoshop have anything to do with this conversation? For one thing, I use Photoshop daily on Linux (albeit CS2), and also, the super computers are probably doing far more important things than graphic design...
- nmckinlay, on 08/19/2008, -0/+3Uhm. Fag.
- intelliot, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3Actually, many of today's PCs use a lot more power than old ones.
- akshay626, on 08/20/2008, -2/+5I went to a Tapioca Express that uses Ubuntu
- binarysemaphore, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3This is what happens when geek work at car dealerships to pay pizza & beer bills
- Churnd, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3There's a local oil change chain called Quickstop here in NKY that uses Ubuntu also as their main system. I was shocked the first time I saw it. They also do a good job changing oil, but strangely enough, the Ubuntu factor is why I go to them for my oil changes. :)
- Awspire, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2According to the blog, it appears those Ubuntu rigs were not being used for anything productive. They were just old rehashed PC's set up so waiting customers had something to keep them occupied.
- DestroyFascism, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2Page load error...
- energyblue, on 08/20/2008, -1/+2I would never buy a car from you if you can't read CAR DEALERSHIP.
- saggygrandma, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1yeah rav-4's don't have the sort of image I would be proud to associate myself with, im sure they are practical and all though...
- hungryduck, on 08/20/2008, -1/+2What's with the anti-linux comments on this? You can hate Mac OS and Windows all you want because you actually have to pay for them. People who aren't impressed with linux can (GASP)... not use it OR even try it without paying anything.
- vacax, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1XP at Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc.
- Cittidel, on 08/20/2008, -1/+2Because it's showing the progression of acceptance of GNU/Linux, or more specifically Ubuntu. (generally)
- inactive, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1That's hella ghetto... the Toyota website doesn't support Linux, yet the computers in their showroom run Ubuntu? Ghetto.
- maybeway36, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1The self-serve ticket kiosks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art seem to use Linux. Looks like Fedora from the font, theme, and mouse cursor. (It's a full-screen application so it's hard to tell.)
- Thirtysixway, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch11 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c
- DickBreath, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1@Awspire
How much time and trouble would it be for the staff if they used old rehashed PC's running any flavor of Windows and let the public use a web browser? - Awspire, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1Biggest. Fanboy. EVAH!!!!
- David513, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1Huh? You need to learn to make sense and quit making irrational assumptions that have NOTHING to do with the subject at hand. You sound like an idiot who's so mad that he can't THINK.
- DickBreath, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1Is VistaPE in violation of the letter of the EULA?
- ethana2, on 08/20/2008, -1/+2Right, probably CentOS.
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