I thought this was pretty cool so I figured I'd share it with you guys. I work as a Slot Attendant in Atlantic City. We do minor repairs on games and whatnot. We recently got a bunch of new games in from wms gaming. They are new video slot machines named bluebird.

So I was messing around with these games cause they are real state of the art and I rebooted one just to see what would happen. To my surprise LILO began loading! I was blown away. The machines use a custom 2.4 kernel, which throws forced module errors, and boot to bash. Then bash hands off to busybox and the game loads.

Pretty cool I thought. The thing that is really cool is that the software on these games don't crash. Other machines have issues and the video screen will freeze. I haven't seen this happen once on the bluebirds.

Just thought I'd share this with you cause I thought it was pretty interesting.

Yeah there are lots of bar machines that run linux
There are "MegaForce Touch" machines all over bars around here which all run some sort of custom linux. I found out the same way you did -- working at one restaurant, we shut them off at night and I came in to open, turned it on and lo and behold-- The linux loader. Thought it was cool, too.

--Shade

PS --

Kind of ironic that the one shortcoming of linux thus far has been gaming, yet the machines they use for nothing else BUT gaming all seem to run linux...

Very ironic.

ah sweet thats intresting

Linux sneaks around behind the scenes everywhere! That's so kewl that Casinos are running because of Linux. My employer also runs linux in places where one wouldn't expect. The PC's in our center run a minimal image of Mandrake with a Citrix client. Most of my co-workers think they are using Win2000, as that's what they "remotely" log into (without knowing it - 1000km away).

yea lol

I worked at a Regal Cinemas Theater a couple years ago and while I was there we got in these IBM teller machines. One day between movies I got bored and hit the restart button and Linux booted. The cool part is that they were left on for 3 weeks straight before one crashed and it crashed because some genius got bored and was pounding on the touchscreen for 30 minutes.

Ahhhh the joys of working at a theater.