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Linux on non-PCs/Laptops (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Aside from Linux running on NASA hardware, phones and consoles. Does it run on ATM machines, PDAs and point of sale monitors?

I ask this because I've seen Windows being used in airport terminals and really old versions being used for cash machines as well. The crowdstrike problem made this more prevalent by seeing "non end user computers" using the OS.

Does Linux fill this niche as well do you know? I don't recall hearing any big name embedded distro used for those sorts of machines. Maybe Alpine Linux or NetBSD?

Thank you in advance for your input!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My company has a robot scrubber that runs a custom Linux distribution.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We have a coffee machine that runs on linux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That is really cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is that a machine that scrubs robots or a robot that scrubs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's a floor scrubbing robot. It uses LIDAR, a 3D depth camera, and a couple 2D side cameras to map and navigate its routes. It was cool for about six months and now we just default to manual driving because it's slow and gets stuck very often.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

scrubbing floors with an RC car still sounds pretty cool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Man I wish it was that cool. Controlling it remotely would be primo. Unfortunately, it's not, and I work in a building that's 183,000sqft. If I have it running automatically on the other side of the building and it gets stuck, I'm suddenly burning time to run over and unstuck it.