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she was pretty sure I was crazy, but was happy to humor me.

he seemed to at least know that linux was an operating system.

After we landed in Orlando I talked the flight crew into rebooting the entire system so I could take this picture. The guy in the green shirt knew a little about linux but the rest of the flight crew thought I was nuts.

They could also reboot each seat individually. I suspect there was some sort of mini-itx system built in to each console.

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jbroome says:

You could have a flying beowulf cluster! :)
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

villoks says:

At least that's better than plane full of BSoD ;-)
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

samurailink3 says:

You know that plane isn't gonna crash ;-D
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

sfPhotocraft says:

www.flickr.com/groups/inside/
Great shot - I hope you post it to INSIDE THE PLANE!!!
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Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

B-O-K says:

Ah sweet! I like stuff like this. This is not "SoaP", for sure. ;-)
Anyway, this pic made me LOL!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

emeidi says:

And that's how it looks like when things go awry:

www.flickr.com/photos/emeidi/305648769/

@villoks: You wanted a BsOD? You get one ;-)
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Quadlaser says:

I was on a Swiss Air flight about 3 years ago, and they also used linux. How did I know? My seat kept crashing, and rebooting.

The entire flight I had to watch it crash and reboot. Never got to watch TV/movies or play games.

I learned to hate the penguin.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

tacoekkel says:

Not uncommon. I've seen planes reboot all systems more than once during a flight (disappointing performance by our tux friend). Once, I overheard an American computer expert explain to a helpless woman that the entertainment system 'could not handle rapid button presses' and would therefore (obviously, because what else can it do?) spontaneously reset. The woman just nodded and said 'uh huh'.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

elotroyo says:

This rocks!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

chrigu_;-) says:

this is great....
soo cool...
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

NguyenDai says:

Very very cool shot ! I love it so much !!!
Is this Boeing or Airbus plane ?
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

colin j. says:

It's been a while, but I think it was a Boeing.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

pdxkona says:

a. awesome!
b. i'm surprised they let you, security yadda yadda yadda
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

gormannahuel says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called AIRLINE CABIN INTERIORS, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

gormannahuel says:

It is a Boeing 757-200.
The only model used by Song ( DL low cost carrier).
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

ULTRALAW says:

Torvalds must be proud!!!
=D
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

jamesccostello says:

Is it really that big of a surprise that an airline company would use the most reliable, efficient, and tweak-able operating system when making a new computerized video system? I wasn't surprised to hear of it.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

joshuadelaughter says:

haha thats pretty sweet
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

filenox says:

the most stable plane in the world ;)
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

ialexorg says:

what was the airline? every geek shoud travel on those planes who use FOSS :P
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

JonyTut says:

Can I use this pic in our Novosibirsk Linux User Group site?
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

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