[wellylug] penguins on a plane

[Jethro Carr]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 19:45 +1300, Bruce Hoult wrote:
> 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

For the record, this was on an Airbus A320. :-)

-- 
Jethro Carr
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