Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux in real-world aviation (was: FG and VATSIM)

2007-09-17 Thread Durk Talsma
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 kn

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux in real-world aviation (was: FG and VATSIM)

2007-09-17 Thread Curtis Olson
On 9/17/07, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Linux isn't FAA certified so it's not used for mission-critical systems > but in-flight entertainment systems would be very useful on Linux. Yup and if they are running it on a couple hundred seats, individually, there would be no need to pay the l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux in real-world aviation (was: FG and VATSIM)

2007-09-17 Thread Robin
Curtis Olson wrote: > 3. I'll just toss in this unrelated item ... a week ago I got to fly > on a NWA A330. This aircraft had individual movie/music/game/map > displays for each seat. I managed to hang/lock mine up ... apparently > because the map wasn't working on this flight for some reason.