[ale] Delta in-flight is Linux!

[JD]

On 11/20/2013 09:13 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.
> 

It has been the same system for at least 3 yrs. On one trip, the entire setup
died about 40 minutes into the 8+ hr flight, never to work again. Got 15K miles
for that inconvenience by complaining and saying nice things about the crew.
KLM's system has a nicer GUI and is also Linux.

Can't wait to test out the in-flight entertainment system on "Scoot Airlines"
for an upcoming trip.