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From: Vladimir Vassilevsky on 1 Feb 2010 23:02 http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No movies for the whole plane. However, watching their attempts of rebooting it for an hour and a half was kind of entertaining :-) BTW, the TV remote control had some bugs as well. Vladimir Vassilevsky DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant http://www.abvolt.com
From: Martin Riddle on 1 Feb 2010 23:10 "Vladimir Vassilevsky" <nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message news:X_WdnYGo4ddZPvrWnZ2dnUVZ_q2dnZ2d(a)giganews.com... > > http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG > > This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No > movies for the whole plane. However, watching their attempts of > rebooting it for an hour and a half was kind of entertaining :-) BTW, > the TV remote control had some bugs as well. > It's great when it works, if you get that far. but, its very easy for the average Joe to break. Oh, and new versions are just as fun. You would think it came from Redmond. Cheers
From: DJ Delorie on 1 Feb 2010 23:35 Despite the fact that it's running a Linux kernel under the hood, there's nothing on that screen that looks like a generic linux distro, and it's already past the point where Linux itself is booting, and well into the application software startup. Hence, I'm more inclined to blame the group that created the custom software for the airline than the Linux kernel itself. The last flight I was on, they couldn't get the movie running either, but it was just a plain DVD player. My daughter couldn't get her truck to start one day - she was out of gas. We didn't blame the truck's manufacturer for that, either. Usually when I have trouble getting a Linux box to boot, it turns out to be my own stupid fault, not the software's fault. So before you go blaming "Linux" for problems, find out what the *real* cause of the problem is. Otherwise you're just being a scaremonger.
From: Ban on 2 Feb 2010 01:36 "Vladimir Vassilevsky" <nospam(a)nowhere.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:X_WdnYGo4ddZPvrWnZ2dnUVZ_q2dnZ2d(a)giganews.com... > > http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG > > This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No movies > for the whole plane. However, watching their attempts of rebooting it for > an hour and a half was kind of entertaining :-) BTW, the TV remote control > had some bugs as well. > > > Vladimir Vassilevsky > DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant > http://www.abvolt.com I went with KLM last year and the same happened, but the crew managed after half an hour. Good films tho, "angels and demons" w. Tom Hanks. ciao Ban
From: Falk Willberg on 2 Feb 2010 02:53
Am 02.02.2010 05:02, schrieb Vladimir Vassilevsky: > > http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG That only shows that Linux (the kernel) is working well. It is even telling, what is going wrong. (Missing files) Falk |