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!

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Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:43 AM
Subject: Linux takes a seat on Qantas' new superjumbo
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Linux takes a seat on Qantas' new superjumbo

via Computerworld on 10/14/08

Flight entertainment systems powered by Linux

 
 

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