Here’s a few that I know of. What other things are commonly running Linux that most people may but be aware of?
- Ingenuity (helicopter drone on Mars)
- Smart TVs and streaming devices (Samsung’s TizenOS and Roku devices)
- Smart appliances (Samsung’s smart refrigerator)
- Digital signs and billboards
- My car stereo (Sony XAV-AX6000)
- The Large Hadron Collider
- FAA Air traffic control and radar systems
- Self driving cars
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All 3 billion Android devices in the world. It’s pretty crazy when you think about it. Also 96% of the top 1 million web servers and all of the 500 fastest super computers (excluding quantum) in the world.
Quantum computers aren’t fast, they’re very slow.
Eventually, if things keep progressing, they’ll be able to do certain things like factoring primes faster than conventional computers. But, the clock rate will probably always be abysmal.
Remarkable eink tablets. Buried deep in the settings they actually give you the root password so you can SSH in. Also, it comes with an epic .vimrc file.
Kindles too. You can jailbreak them and get a shell. They’re so much more useful when they’re jailbroken. They can read multiple other formats, they can get books from a fileserver on your local network, the jailbroken reader app is better, etc.
THEY DO?!? NO WAY!
https://github.com/reMarkable/linux At that, there are ways to hack it of course (Fairly certain it “ruins” some returns/warranty policies, but if you can in those cases, you can easily revert the modified bits if needed)
tl;dr : if you want to try to hack it safely, heads up to : https://remarkable.guide/
If you would like to run a pre-made Debian chroot on it. Saw other distros from other users https://github.com/Eeems-Org/remarkable-debian-chroot
If you would like to use (Not fully replace for stability/recovery concerns) another launcher which is MIT licensed https://github.com/Eeems-Org/oxide
You can install the “vanilla” (minus extra bits) kernel via Toltec https://toltec-dev.org/stable/#section-launchers
Aaaand, if you want to go the full libre way, there’s a port of parabola on it sold here http://www.davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm/ Article here https://hackaday.com/2020/09/06/a-free-software-os-for-the-remarkable-e-paper-tablet/
Yeah, I’ve made a custom lock screen picture and uploaded it. I unfortunately have to redo it every update.
Also what is a .vimrc file?
Settings/customizations file for legendary text editor vim. Remarkable’s comes with a lot of stuff built-in.
The vast majority of the web, really.
Nearly all of AWS.
The handheld gaming console - valve steam deck
Also Handheld emulation consoles
Cars. Either entertainment system or navigation or more…
BMW has quite the list of licences for opensource libraries and Linux in the about section of the car-menu.
And more and more network equipment.
So we can download the sources?
BMW requires you to go the written notice path and they send you a DVD with the sources
is this a joke? please tell me this is a joke
It’s not super horrible, and they’re meeting the requirements for GPLv2
I’d rather a git repo with history that can be cloned with physical media as a backup option
If you’re looking for a real bad one, Qualcomm has been trying to claim that their devicetree, which is equivalent to ACPI, and 100% necessary to boot anything is somehow “proprietary”
Yuck. I wish Qualcomm a very get fucked by RISC-V.
Passenger information systems in public transport. Some might run some kind of embedded windows, but most run on Linux. Certainly here in Czechia, but I believe it’s common at east throughout the Central Europe.
- The International Space Station (ISS)
- The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket
- My Samsung Phone
They link doesn’t say the jwst uses Linux. Just that python is used by the jwst team.
Robot vacuums. Some of them you can root and install the opensource Valetudo.
The idea of installing Linux on a vacuum…
Yes!! I can SSH into mine! Just fuggin wild that they run Ubuntu =-D
Great. Time to update Nginx on my vacuum.
my sexbot
The thin piece of electronics in my hand that I’m typing this on
The reMarkable runs on Linux too! It’s an eink paper tablet
Hate them or love them, Teslas are run on Linux.
Last commit was more than 5 years ago…
Apparently most of their code is not open source.
Pretty much everything that’s running on a microprocessor (i.e. larger than a microcontroller) and not from Microsoft or Apple.
Linux powers robotic cow-milking machine
