Ian McDonald wrote:
Experienced this system on multiple different Singapore Airline flights recently. Generally fairly good but multiple machines needing rebooting - seemed to be the proprietary system locking up rather than Linux as you could see the Linux kernel booting just fine!
Systems were very slow on older planes 747/777 but faster on A380 but still some parts had badly written software as some parts were fast and some parts were slow (30 second wait after pressing a key). A380 has full OpenOffice installed and a USB socket so you can work on documents on your USB key. Tested it and it certainly worked fine!
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. I dont recall the name of the airline however, but i thought it was a great idea. Liz
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