Re: Linux based inflight system

Could be!!

According to RedHat, Virgin has been using Fedora and jBoss since FC2
and are currently migrating from Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/virginamerica.html

In this article, the author talks of crashing his in-flight display,

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/08/virgin-america-.html

"It's running Red Hat Linux! Tux the Penguin pops up during a reboot
after I crashed my inflight display. My crash didn't affect anyone
else's console. In other respects, the fact that the system is running
Linux is pretty much invisible to users. (There's no command-line
access, sorry.)"

Peter Michael wrote:
> An Interesting article on Virgin America Airlines Linux based inflight system...
>
> so..wonder if they are using Redhat??? and hence the name...???
>
> http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4220225.html?series=36
>
> Pete
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Received on Tue Nov 27 15:47:36 2007