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09-06-2024, 04:02 PM
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... but.. what could it be?
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09-06-2024, 09:39 PM
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
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What the heck. I'll bite.
Computer lab in a French-speaking nation.
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09-06-2024, 09:51 PM
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Interesting, they had ubuntu on the computers (pc) in the I.T. Science-labs back in 2006/7/8/9 at Griffith Uni, Nathan campus when I was there.
But you had to select it from the boot menu, which meant restarting the machine, which most students did not like spending valuable time to do.
Pesonally I found the word software more compatible, end-of-line txt and less distractions.
Firefox was the choice web-browser, but you could install others.
Glad to see you have similar choices.
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09-07-2024, 05:35 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennsPref
Interesting, they had ubuntu on the computers (pc) in the I.T. Science-labs back in 2006/7/8/9 at Griffith Uni, Nathan campus when I was there.
But you had to select it from the boot menu, which meant restarting the machine, which most students did not like spending valuable time to do.
Pesonally I found the word software more compatible, end-of-line txt and less distractions.
Firefox was the choice web-browser, but you could install others.
Glad to see you have similar choices.
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a while ago i was researching about non windows/linux end-users desktops running for "general public", i found few univs of the us arguing they were using solaris or unix likes on their science-deps, in parallel of mswindows
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What the heck. I'll bite.
Computer lab in a French-speaking nation.
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09-12-2024, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by hd99
a while ago i was researching about non windows/linux end-users desktops running for "general public", i found few univs of the us arguing they were using solaris or unix likes on their science-deps, in parallel of mswindows
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When I was starting out with Linux I did quite a bit of duel booting however, the last system that I used on a daily biases that was dual boot was a personal computer that i had back in college. But these days I exclusively run GNU/Linux on both Lenovo(IBM) Think Pad X Carbon 6th generation and my Hp Z 420 workstation. |
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09-12-2024, 07:58 PM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
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Originally Posted by funnyflipper8827
When I was starting out with Linux I did quite a bit of duel booting however, the last system that I used on a daily biases that was dual boot was a personal computer that i had back in college. But these days I exclusively run GNU/Linux on both Lenovo(IBM) Think Pad X Carbon 6th generation and my Hp Z 420 workstation.
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Good to know...and again, what does this have to do with the OP's original question??? |
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09-12-2024, 09:54 PM
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I guessing the images are from a library of some sort and the pictures are of a NUC type computer setup running a customized kiosk or maybe thin client software.
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09-13-2024, 12:43 AM
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Registered: Mar 2016
Location: Harrow, UK
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My guess is a public library. A lot of London boroughs provide these machines for community use, but they usually run Windows.
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09-13-2024, 01:06 AM
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Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Wild West Wales, UK
Distribution: Linux Mint 22 MATE, Peppermint OS-Devuan, EndeavourOS, antiX
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+1 for hazel's suggestion.
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09-13-2024, 08:05 AM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
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Originally Posted by hazel
My guess is a public library. A lot of London boroughs provide these machines for community use, but they usually run Windows.
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Absolutely a public library, just based on the signage. And it looks to be running an old version of KDE (perhaps?), on some version of Linux. |
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09-13-2024, 08:36 AM
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Registered: Feb 2007
Location: UK
Distribution: Debian
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Someone with access to the machine can open the browser, press F12, then enter "navigator.userAgent" to obtain some information.
Depending on what restrictions are in place, they might be able to access "file:///etc/os-release" and get even more...
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09-15-2024, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by TB0ne
Absolutely a public library, just based on the signage. And it looks to be running an old version of KDE (perhaps?), on some version of Linux.
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mate or lxqt/lxde/xfce something.
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Originally Posted by boughtonp
Someone with access to the machine can open the browser, press F12, then enter "navigator.userAgent" to obtain some information.
Depending on what restrictions are in place, they might be able to access "file:///etc/os-release" and get even more...
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debian based.
https://pix.milkywan.fr/oFqQ3iQ5.jpg
https://pix.milkywan.fr/dVd65rcT.jpg
Last edited by hd99; 09-15-2024 at 07:24 PM.
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