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====== Advertisement Screens ======

EOPs for any sort of screen which serves a primary purpose of displaying advertisements, that is not just a TV mounted on a wall somewhere. In other words, this is for advertisements displayed on screens in kiosks, gas pumps, on the sides of buildings, within shops, and so on. Due to the "technical obscurity" of these devices, it is hard to determine what is common for their architectures and operating systems. One can assume that they're usually based off of x86 or ARM, and can run a large variety of operating systems (Unix variants, Windows, Mac, custom stuff).

===== at Kroger Gas Stations =====

==== Operating Systems ====

=== Ubuntu ===

>the system ran kernel 2.6.35-24 could be 10.04 or 10.10 though 10.04 would be my guess

The irritating screens at Kroger gas stations (circa 2012) apparently use Linux. Some postulation was done about the potential version of Ubuntu used. Ultimately, this is probably just a computer in the station building that has all these other displays hooked up to it, or maybe individual computers within each gas pump. Now we wonder...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140330020000/http://linuxinthewild.tumblr.com/post/17892081865/source

https://web.archive.org/web/20120429122328/http://www.tekkidd.com/2012/02/ubuntu-spotted-found-at-kroger-gas.html