Not Debian, it is how the arch Linux distros boot after the grub menu.
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The font is the default Debian font.
Debian can show it too you just need to remove quiet from the grub config.
So can most distros
Reminds me of the garbage can that keeps crashing at the Tim Horton's downtown
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.
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.
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?
I dunno how often they normally change, week or so?
Quick bit of googling suggests printed billboards have a ~$1k startup cost to the advertiser then a flat rate monthly fee, so I'd hazard a guess its probably 3-6 months at a time to amortize the startup cost
Labour is expensive
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.
The digital ones are way more visible though, at least the ones I see here. There's also some here that are printed but don't have lights, for whatever reason.
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)
Gentoo?
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
A lot of the time, the whole company that runs the signage uses Windows, and the signage just uses one of their standard PCs with their standard Windows image. They probably already have a bunch of spares. Makes it easier for IT if they don't have to support another configuration.
Same here, was at the airport just last week and saw two screens running windows, absolute joke.
I just said "You know when Linux has taken over the world? When you don't see blue screens on billboards."
Since the Raspberry Pi has been released it's pretty common.
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 😅
It looks like my garuda startup
Every systemd-based distro should look like that indeed
I like the security camera pointed at the billboard, like someone's gonna steal it.
no, thats the monitor, how else are you supposed to debug 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
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