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[ale] Delta in-flight is Linux!
- Subject: [ale] Delta in-flight is Linux!
- From: calvin.harrigan at gmail.com (Calvin Harrigan)
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:19:46 -0500
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On 11/20/2013 9:13 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Greetings from Cambridge, UK!
>
> On the Delta flight over I noticed the entertainment system had Tux on
> it during boot up. I saw enough of the startup to it's a RedHat based
> system using "red boot" which is RHEL4 I think.
> The GUI is a custom one that needs some more polish (clunky touch screen
> fubar'ed into a non-English mode and there was no route back other than
> rebooting my display system.).
> Pictures of a boot screen were taken while taxiing to runway. Can't post
> from here without size edits but will later for those interested.
>
>
I remember seeing this a few years ago as well. It was a dual core
machine (two tuxens). I thought it was pretty cool.