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Jiffy Lube Linux experience out in the wild
Monday, April 30, 2007
 I was getting my oil changed at a local Jiffy Lube that I go to and was sitting in the waiting area watching TV, waiting for my car to be serviced. I thought the TV had a live cable/satellite feed with some kind of Jiffy Lube advertisement overlay ticker. It was a computer that was driving the television feed, so I thought it was probably some kind of Microsoft program running it. I was so wrong, they are running Linux!
The computer rebooted somehow and the LCD screen started to show the Dell Logo as the computer was finishing up its POST. After BIOS POST, I figured that I would be seeing a Windows XP logo, but I was totally in awe. Up came GRUB booting into Fedora Core and started to load the kernel, lol. Saw two Penguins (meaning it was running kernel with smp support), after a while, and it was a long while, there were a lot of services that were starting silenting and didn't show anything verbose, soon X started up and then a Mozilla browser opened up. It went to localhost, and from there, it went and resumed the television feed. How odd is that, Jiffy Lube is using Linux to power their content. I thought they were running some sort of MythTV or Freevo, but it ran through a browser based application. Really odd, really geek, thumbs up for the people that went towards that decision. I didn't really bother asking the guy who set up their Linux computer. I just wanted my oil changed and off I went.
Cool beans though.
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