This not was just posted over on the IBMMAIN list. I though it might be of some interest to the folks here.....
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Somewhat slight OT, I flew on the new Singapore Airlines A380 back in October a week after it commenced flights between Sydney and Singapore. There was a problem with my inflight AVOD screen and the flight attendant had the Panasonic engineer who was onboard babysitting the system come and see me. He said that he would go and re-boot my screen. As the screen was re-booting in front of me I could see all these LINUX messages pop-up. When he came back to my seat to check if everything was ok I commented about the usage of LINUX. He said that they're using the free downloadable version of LINUX to drive the onboard flight entertainment system and that they had a huge onboard storage array to handle the entertainment system for the 400+ passengers onboard. I didn't dare want to know if it was the free LINUX that was also managing the flight control systems for the A380 itself!! Stephen Mednick Computer Supervisory Services Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- DJ V/Soft z/VM and mainframe Linux expertise, training, consulting, and software development www.vsoft-software.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
