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I think I noted previously on the list that I've seen yellow cabs in
downtown manhattan running redhat on their top-of-car pixel board. The
one I saw seemed to be hung up halfway through boot :).<br>
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On 06/07/10 09:50 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTim68ov3aHAp1UULUVu_YacTDiamKNKb9DwyHKUO@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Lori Paniak <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com">ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com</a>></span>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I
was at Mr Lube for an oil change today and they have LCD screens that<br>
face the driver with details of the service and charges. I was<br>
pleasantly surprised to see the desktop of ubuntu Hardy in the<br>
background behind the service/billing application.<br>
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Of course, many businesses use F/LOSS for customer-facing interfaces,<br>
but this is first example I've come across involving a Linux desktop.<br>
I'd be interested in supporting other businesses that put the symbols of<br>
open-source in front of their customers.<br>
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That is exciting.<br>
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Mr Lube is a franchise and that means that the Linux application is
probably chain-wide, and not just a one shop thing.<br>
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Was it a web based (in the browser) application, or a native Gnome
desktop<br>
application?<br>
-- <br>
Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>
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