Tags: english, ruter
Date: 2018-03-02 13:10
-<p>Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover by operating system of
-choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway. While
-passing Nydalen subway station in Oslo, Norway, I discovered the info
-screen booting with some text scrolling. I was not quick enough with
-my camera to be able to record a video of the scrolling boot screen,
-but I did get a photo from when the boot got stuck with a corrupt file
-system:
+<p>Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover my operating system of
+choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway stations.
+While passing Nydalen subway station in Oslo, Norway, I discovered the
+info screen booting with some text scrolling. I was not quick enough
+with my camera to be able to record a video of the scrolling boot
+screen, but I did get a photo from when the boot got stuck with a
+corrupt file system:
-<p><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg"><img width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg" alt="[photo of subway info screen]"></a></p>
+<p align="center"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg"><img align="center" width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg" alt="[photo of subway info screen]"></a></p>
-<p>While I am happy to see Debian used more places, the details of the
-content on the screen worries me.
+<p>While I am happy to see Debian used more places, some details of the
+content on the screen worries me.</p>
-The image show the version booting is 'Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid',
+<p>The image show the version booting is 'Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid',
indicating that this is based on code taken from Debian Unstable/Sid
-between Debian Etch (version 4) was released 2007-04-08 and after
+after Debian Etch (version 4) was released 2007-04-08 and before
Debian Lenny (version 5) was released 2009-02-14. Since Lenny Debian
has released version 6 (Squeeze) 2011-02-06, 7 (Wheezy) 2013-05-04, 8
(Jessie) 2015-04-25 and 9 (Stretch) 2017-06-15, according to
discovered the ticket vending machines were running Windows 2000</a>,
and this was
<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fortsatt_ingen_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_for_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_.html">still
-the case in 2016</a>.</p>
+the case in 2016</a>. Given the response from the responsible people
+in 2016, I would assume the machines are still running unpatched
+Windows 2000. Thus, an unpatched Debian setup come as no surprise.</p>
<p>The photo is made available under the license terms
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons
4.0 Attribution International (CC BY 4.0)</a>.</p>
+
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