[ale] Delta in-flight is Linux!

[Jim Kinney]

Hmm. The nonresponse sounds familiar to my experience last night. Sad.
On Nov 20, 2013 4:28 PM, "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, November 20, 2013 10:48 am, JD wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I think it's even longer than that.  I believe that Lufthansa also uses a
> Linux-based system.
>
> However, Delta has been rolling out a "software upgrade" recently which,
> IMHO, is a downgrade.  The system is IMHo less responsive to touches (I
> feel I have to press harder now, and there is a significant delay between
> a press and a reaction from the system) and the in-flight map doesn't do
> the auto-zooming and info-page swapping that the old system used, making
> it much less useful and informative.
>
> -derek
>
>
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