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Ubuntu spotted in the wild
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Linux is pretty common in embedded devices. For example information screens in buses in my city (Kraków) which display stuff like next stops, OSM map, time, etc. run some kind of customized Linux distribution I think, and you can often see bunch of Tuxes along with console output when it boots up.
Sadly, Windows is also common in signage. Why ever.
There was that recent "malware security" update that crashed so so many systems in airports. I saw more than one Blue Screen of Death that day.