From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 12:02:52 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: New post.
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+Title: Debian used in the subway info screens in Oslo, Norway
+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><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>While I am happy to see Debian used more places, the details of the
+content on the screen worries me.
+
+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
+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
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history">a Debian
+version history on Wikpedia</a>.  This mean the system is running
+around 10 year old code, with no security fixes from the vendor for
+many years.</p>
+
+<p>This is not the first time I discover the Oslo subway company,
+Ruter, running outdated software.  In 2012,
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html">I
+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>
+
+<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>