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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Robot vacuums. Some of them you can root and install the opensource Valetudo.
The idea of installing Linux on a vacuum…
- 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.
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!
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.
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.
I thonk kobo or onyx
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.
my sexbot
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.
The vast majority of the web, really.
Nearly all of AWS.
The lego mindstorms ev3 robot
Bruh it takes like 40 seconds to boot my lego brick 💀 im not even kidding
I KNOW
Linux powers robotic cow-milking machine
Passenger Entertainment Systems in Boeing 737 MAX.
Pretty much everything that’s running on a microprocessor (i.e. larger than a microcontroller) and not from Microsoft or Apple.
Parrot’s older consumer drones. They took really long to power up, and ran very hot.
I believe you could telnet into them too, although that was later discovered to be a bug and not a feature
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Some old Archos media players, such as the 605 WiFi, run a locked down Linux according to Wikipedia.
