Not necessarily Debian
But systemd for sure!
Hardly the wilds: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Gw2aiyPXBCL8jJhV8
Wow, did the place change in two years. That blue building just SHOT up there.
The blue stuff is insulation/vapor barrier on new construction, so it’s not even completely built yet.
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
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?
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
Linux is also used on billboards now? Nice
Always has been
I think I saw Windows on billboards and projectors a few times in my country. Don’t remember seeing Linux much
Always has been
It’s been for a while. It’s cheap and easily-embeddable with a proper network stack for remote management. It’s a decade at least, but I can only gauge since I first saw a net guy in an adjacent desk fighting with a parks n rec guy over one not working.
(it wasn’t DNS: it was fucking radios/wireless)
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.
the wilds of Nova Scotia
Walking across the Windsor Street exchange is wild for sure.
They have a cross walk now, I feel so safe now.
Nova Scotia is looking a bit ROUGH though.
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We’re all in this together. At least until rent is so high that we just leave lmao
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.
Why billboard system would have sane installed? I don’t think Debian or derivatives install it by default. Vnstat is also a bit odd, but maybe that’s just me. I assume they have multiple of these displays around and for them it would make more sense to use something more centralized, like zabbix, to monitor the whole network (obviously they could do that too).
assume they have multiple of these displays around and for them it would make more sense to use something more centralized, like zabbix
The one I saw a decade ago yielded SNMP to solarwinds (I know I know) rather well, but they mainly used PING on it to see when the radio link died.
Fancy that – when the parks n rec sites were converted to e-billboards, they had power but no net line, and “radio’s fine”. Show me an old linux billboard host and I’ll show you a canvas my inner child can’t wait to e-graffiti.
Wait a second. They used AMPRNet to manage these things? In here this kind of things are either hardwired to the internet or they use 3/4/5G uplink and while of course techinally possible either way to breach the system it’s a bit more difficult to find out proper IP’s and everything.
Once upon a time I had a task to plan a scalable system to display stuff on billboards and even replace printed ads on stores with monitors. The whole thing fell down as we couldn’t secure a funding for it, but I made a POC setup where individual displays had a linux host running and managing the display with (if memory serves) plain X.org session with mplayer (or something similar, it was about 20 years ago) running on full screen and a torrent network to deliver new content to them with a web-based frontend to manage what’s shown on which site. Back then it would’ve been stupidly expensive to have the hardware and bandwidth on a single point to service potentially few thousand clients, so distributing the load was the sensible solution. I think that even today it would be a neat solution for the task, but no one has put up the money to actually make it happen.
This is almost certainly Ubuntu server
The makefile style concurrency shows that it’s probably running sysvinit. The last version of Ubuntu to do that by default was 9.04.
Either it’s a very old distro (Ubuntu 9.04 or earlier, Debian 7 or earlier, RHEL/CentOS 5 or earlier) or it’s a non systemd distro like slackware.
Maybe Devuan or another Debian derivative.
My money is on Raspbian. Because it’s very likely powered by a Raspberry Pi.
Not Debian, it is how the arch Linux distros boot after the grub menu.
