Walmart and Linux
Maybe this is old news to everyone — but last night while visiting my local Walmart, I happened to notice that the machines that allow you to preview a CD were broken — displaying some random text on the screen. I walked over to them to take a closer look at it and low-n-behold, it appears that they are running Linux.
Admitedly it could be some other *nix variant — since I could only see a small part of the boot messages, but until I hear otherwise, I’m sticking to the story that it is Linux. I grabbed a few pics with my camera phone. The quality on my camera phone blows — so my apologies — but it was all I had.
UPDATE: JustBill has confirmed that indeed the WalMart MMS Server is running some flavor of *nix. JustBill works for a company which is a leading global technology company that does service work for Walmart and others. (so he knows!)
