[wellylug] penguins on a plane

[Bruce Hoult]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:
> I recently took a flight on a plane fitted out with Air New Zealand's
> new per-seat entertainment on demand systems.
>
> Before we took off, the cabin staff rebooted the whole entertainment
> system, and gave me a chance to see what was running.
>
> It appears that the individual seat computers are running Linux, which
> boots up into an X windows environment. :-)

Well that's an improvement because last time I flew on an AirNZ 747
(which was in April) they were running WinCE in the seatbacks.  I saw
a couple crash and there was no way to reboot them.

http://hoult.org/bruce/seatback.jpg