05.02.2006 06:45

North Carolina lottery ticket machine running Monta Vista Linux


At a Kangaroo convenience store in Raleigh yesterday, the lottery ticket machine (the one which checks scratch off tickets for winners) rebooted. When it started coming back up, I saw dmesg echoing to the console with a Monta Vista Linux Tux logo. GTECH supplies the hardware at that location, and, I believe, all four or five thousand scratch off ticket validation locations for the lottery. The machine was running a 2.14 kernel, 2.14.17, IIRC.