At the main train station in Munich, at the subway level there is a big screen showing ads and miscellaneous information to capture the attention of the waiting passengers.

These screens are pretty nice, they show some comics, random facts, some headlines, weather forecast and similar things. In their “bits & more” computer tips section they today showed the URI for some linux application finder. (That is not at all specific to germany, so I doubt they paid for being mentioned)

I was really surprised to see a Linux software page mentioned on such a high visibility place; stuff there is usually targeted at the total computer newbies. Now if this isn’t a sign that Linux is becoming mainstream…