8/12/2005
Florida Lottery
So some of us Floridians might have noticed the new Florida lottery machines that have been rolled out a few months ago. Only reason I noticed is cause my college job is working at a grocery store that has one. Well the other day the lottery office rep was in and rebooted the machine while I was standing there. And what pops up on the screen? Why it’s Linux!
It came up with the old style boot graphic that’s like 100×100 in the top left at the top with a frame buffer below. The graphic was a Monta Vista Linux logo. The kernel was version 2.4.17. The rep said it was proprietary and I couldn’t see it so she was kind of blocking everyone’s view. But I did also see it used ALSA for sound and used the intel8×0 sound driver. And it loaded a weird module at the end of boot. It said something about loading lottery module data…… libflorida.so. Who knows. Going to accidentally trip over the power cord at work sometime to get some more info. 
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August 12th, 2005 at 5:46 pm
yeah, thats awesome. california lottery does the same exact thing. same linux and all - but they’re running it on some ancient celerons and the whole deal is done in java and flash. it’s so annoyingly slow, i was really tempted to hook up a keyboard+mouse and play around with it. lovely touchscreen. i pretty much did a doubletake when i saw grub loading.