Re: Linux based inflight system

Peter,

You're comment about "little fanfare" got me curious. I did a quick
Google search of it and found several (not a lot) of mentions. At first
I suspected they were in places our crowd doesn't frequent, but ...

Lo, I found an article on digg.com and another on Gizmodo. The Gizmodo
one is complete with a YouTube video. Both are from back in February.

http://digg.com/linux_unix/MEGA_hands_on_with_Virgin_Airline_s_RED_Linux_based_in_flight_entertainment
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/virgin-americas-airplanes-play-doom-233695.php

I even found one article from May 2004, but I lost it when my Windoze
box at the office decided it was time to lock.

So I guess we just aren't paying attention.

Jim Gribbin

Peter Michael wrote:
> Jim,
> Thanks for the links, surprising how quietly they went and developed
> this, not much fanfare in many of the computer forums or anything
> other than the company website and of course Popular Mech and
> Wired.....I am looking forward to going on vacation next year ...even
> more now ......because, I am going to ensure that some of the trip
> will be on Virgin America, just so that I can try out the system...
> Pete
>
> Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 Wed Nov 28 01:06:35 2007