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LinuxDevices: Linux Serves On-Demand Homemade Ice Cream

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 12, 2006

“MooBella has put Linux to work making ice cream, in a vending
machine that Wallace and Gromit would be proud of. The MooBella
vending machine uses Linux 2.4 and a Red Hat filesystem to make 96
varieties of ice cream, on demand, in about 45 seconds per
precisely-measured serving.

“MooBella showed off its Linux-powered ice cream machine at a
DEMO event in Colorado today…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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