[Sussex] A bad advert for Linux....

[Richie Jarvis]

Hi All,

I discovered something interesting on my trip to the US...  North West 
Airlines (www.nwa.com) use Linux on their Airbus A330's for the 
passenger entertainment system.  Now the bad news - the reason I 
discovered this (and so did everyone else on the plane who knew what 
they were looking at) was that the in-flight entertainment system 
required 2 reboots during the flight - and when it reboots, up comes Tux 
on the startup screen whilst it is loading the kernel and beginning the 
startup sequence.

Its nice to see Linux being used commercially like this, however, its 
not a great advert when it obviously has problems working.  Of course, I 
am sure its not actually a Linux issue, but more of a problem with the 
implementation NWA use, but Joe-Public isn't really going to care.

Still - it was great seeing a familiar loading screen coming up during 
the flight though :)

Cheers,

Richie