Linux news

2007 07 12

$25 Million for Company That Puts Linux on Vending Machines

Moobella Raises $25M First Round

As a bonus, the whole thing is run by Linux. I watched one of their prototypes get absolutely creamed (pun intended) by thousands of people during the DEMO show, to the point where they were resupplying the thing 2 or 3 times a day, and it never once floundered or made a bad sundae.

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Related: Technology Innovation One Scoop At A Time

The company chose Linux because it's an open system that has proved reliable in industrial environments, and there are no licensing fees, Baxter says. MooBella's LAMP software stack--Linux, Apache, MySQLd atabase, and PHP--is wireless and Internet-capable, allowing remote monitoring of sales, ice cream supply, and machine diagnostics.

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ATM with Pirated Windows [with photos]

In Russian you can sometimes meet pirated copy of Windows even on ATM. It warns that this copy of Windows need activation and the work of ATM gets interrupted.

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