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Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station

Sweden is the home of bork, and what better way to mark it than with a huge example of digital signage that shows a GRUB message instead of an ad? Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Alexander, the GRUB in question is sadly not the delicious meatballs for which a well-known Swedish furniture maker is famed, but rather the bootloader familiar to Linux fans, usually when something is working as it should (since we can't imagine much call for selecting from multiple operating systems in the world of digital signage). GNU GRUB (the GRUB is short for Grand Unified Bootloader), according to GNU, "is responsible for loading and transferring control to the operating system kernel software." In this case, the user has some options. UEFI firmware is one. Some options for DMS are another. DMS might mean Dank Material Shell, unless you know better. …

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