Hi! Durk Talsma wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2007 18:41, Curtis Olson wrote: >> My best guess is a debian derivative, probably stripped down for this >> specific application. I saw the debian penguin come up at the head of the >> console boot messages ... only one penguin so it looks like a single >> processor. I don't know what the actual hardware really is ... I'd be >> surprised if they had one CPU per seat ... maybe they were doing some sort >> of virtualization? Interesting to see. Apparently my seat neighbors were >> not nearly as excited as I was to find out the entertainment system was >> running linux ... :-) > > Funny, I had actually the same experience, on the same aircraft type / > airliner on my last flight back from the US (Detroit - Amsterdam, May 17, > Northwest, A330). The entertainment system crashed midway during a movie, and > spontaneously rebooted, showing the penguin.
I don't know whether this should be termed a good thing. Or why should Linux-advocates be proud of their operating system being seen rebooting on two independent instances? ;-) Cheers, Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
