On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:53 AM, John McPherson <jrm(a)wlug.org.nz> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:44:53AM +1300, Liz wrote:
They have been using Linux on airplanes for many years, I recall my sister going overseas about 3-4 years ago and they ran a cut down RedHat distro. She thought it was pretty cool - though she only found out because hers hung and had to be rebooted.
Ditto, this is from March 2007:
http://www.wlug.org.nz/~jrm/entertainment_system.jpeg
If you can run openoffice now though then it sounds like either a different inflight entertainment system or an updated one to what I saw. I also can't remember which airline that was with...
The OpenOffice was only on the very latest - the A380 but the underlying software seemed to be the same - just that the later the plane the more polished the software was and the faster the hardware. One thing that was quite interesting was that they had a Nintendo Gameboy emulator on it as well... -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/, http://www.jandi.co.nz Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz