Linux running on an Airbus A330

by richardbaxterseo on June 5, 2009

Flying back from Seattle this morning, KLM were having problems with our “in-flight entertainment” on our Airbus A330 and had to reboot the system that runs those little TV’s in the backs of passenger chairs. I couldn’t resist taking a picture with my iPhone when I saw the Linux logo… (click to enlarge)

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Needless to say, the reboot didn’t get very far and we were without any visuals for the whole trip. It didn’t say what version they were running but those errors were complaining about the ext2 filesystem. We’re on ext4 now so quite an old setup. In the end, I settled for a very good book. If you have time, I recommend you read it: Belching Out The Devil by Mark Thomas.

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