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
  • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
    831·
    8 months ago

    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.

  • everett@lemmy.ml
    52·
    8 months ago

    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.

      • YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee
        18·
        8 months ago

        But, the software they ship is completely closed source and displaying anything on the screen requires hacking the binary (each software release). They have have been the opposite of helpful to open source for the last few years and have stooped to a cloud company trying to collect your data.

        • NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml
          5·
          8 months ago

          What is the best supported Linux e-ink device that’s decent? I really want the PineNote, but it seems like its hard to find in stock and its pretty damn expensive. At this point, I’d consider building my own with off the shelf parts.

        • everett@lemmy.ml
          3·
          8 months ago

          I was referring specifically to Remarkable-brand devices… but Kobos are nice too, with that company also being indifferent to aftermarket hacks.

          • neonred@lemmy.world
            4·
            8 months ago

            Ah, “Remarkable” is a brand, never heard of them and never would have guessed as the “R” is uppercase at the start of a sentence

            • everett@lemmy.ml
              3·
              8 months ago

              Oh, good point. If I was being brand-proper I’d spell it “reMarkable”… but, lol, not doing that.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      8 months ago

      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.

    • OADINC@feddit.nl
      2·
      8 months ago

      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?

      • everett@lemmy.ml
        4·
        8 months ago

        Settings/customizations file for legendary text editor vim. Remarkable’s comes with a lot of stuff built-in.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      8 months ago

      Yeah, it used to be just web servers in a data center. Bigger systems used mainframes. Consumer electronics used custom RTOSes or other custom boards. Now it’s everywhere. It’s used in the biggest systems, like the computers that power virtually every Google product, and the smallest systems. It’s almost not worth it not to use Linux when building a tiny device because it makes the dev cycle so much shorter.

    • acid_falcon@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 months ago

      Jesus I’ve been using Linux for years and your comment just made this really click for me. Do you think Linus is protected by governments and stuff? Like I know he didn’t make all of it, and there’s lots of forks, but he’s defacto in charge… That’s gotta be a lot of soft power

  • BOFH666@lemmy.world
    241·
    8 months ago

    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.

          • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            Its one of the oldest ways people disribute linux sources, and while it seems dumb, its actually good because regions with poor or no internet can also be served.

            • NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml
              2·
              8 months ago

              Poor global south nations graciously appreciating the source code for their BMWs. This seems closer to malicious compliance.

          • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            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”

  • Vikthor@lemmy.world
    19·
    8 months ago

    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.

  • ScottE@lemm.ee
    161·
    8 months ago

    Pretty much everything that’s running on a microprocessor (i.e. larger than a microcontroller) and not from Microsoft or Apple.