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Public Blue Screens Of Death

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Public Blue Screens Of Death

Public displays and digital infrastructure software failing to do their job because of blue screens, crashes or other problems

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[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 6 points 11 hours ago
[–] Jinarched@lemmy.ca 6 points 12 hours ago
[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 38 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

They have golden arches btw

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago
[–] klu9@piefed.social 7 points 15 hours ago

Over 1 billion packages served

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 18 hours ago

I wonder how much McD’s (or rather their sign supplier) has donated to the Debian project…

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Did you know windows has a built kn CALCULATOR though???

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

i would immediately stop and buy something

[–] lnxtx@sopuli.xyz 8 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Debian GNU is free, isn't it?

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 19 hours ago

you can still sell it, you just have to provide the source code

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Found Jason Biggs!

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

"Hey, you were advertising Debian on your sign, so... one of those, please."

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 6 points 19 hours ago

I'm lovin' it.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Ba da ba ba ba. McDebian.