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Found this out in the wilds of Nova Scotia. Looked like Debian (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by the16bitgamer to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is almost certainly Ubuntu server

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The makefile style concurrency shows that it's probably running sysvinit. The last version of Ubuntu to do that by default was 9.04.

Either it's a very old distro (Ubuntu 9.04 or earlier, Debian 7 or earlier, RHEL/CentOS 5 or earlier) or it's a non systemd distro like slackware.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why billboard system would have sane installed? I don't think Debian or derivatives install it by default. Vnstat is also a bit odd, but maybe that's just me. I assume they have multiple of these displays around and for them it would make more sense to use something more centralized, like zabbix, to monitor the whole network (obviously they could do that too).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe Devuan or another Debian derivative.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

[ ok ]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

No way, Debian uses systemd, and systemd uses systemd-journald for logging, and doesn't need cron, because it has timers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Cron is active on all my Debian 12 boxes

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

Tell us more about how Lennart has poorly reinvented so many wheels.

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[–] workerONE 2 points 5 months ago

DiCaprioPointing.jpg

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Not Debian, it is how the arch Linux distros boot after the grub menu.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The font is the default Debian font.

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