Everyone is familiar with blue-screening kiosks and travel information displays, but this one was pretty new to me. The route display on this Air Algerie Airbus a330 was visibly experiencing some disk issues. (They rebooted the aircraft in midair, everything was fine after).
Still, the thought of flying around in something that is controlled by
Redmonds' finest scares me even more :-)
[Note after 53000 views: No, this is not a normal Linux boot sequence.
See the original sized version for the gory details. Also it got stuck
here for a long time (~10 mins) until they restarted the app. And as
some pointed out below, I doubt very much that up until this point
off-the shelf OS'es are used for anything mission critical. Duh.]
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mgcarley 61 months ago | reply
Qantas has Linux on their long haul IFEs... I have some photos of it somewhere, but last year flying Sydney-Hong Kong we had trouble with the IFE for about the first ~3 hours... explanation from the flight attendant was that they had tried "booting all of the systems at the same time, so we will try booting different sections of the plane one at a time and then it will work"... weirdly, it did.
But most IFE interfaces are horrible... it would be really nice if they had decent media players that allowed you to skip to a different part of the movie if you so desired (since I had to restart my movie 3 or 4 times in the aforementioned flight, it was getting pretty tedious waiting for it to scroll through 15, 20, 30 minutes of movie to get to the bit I was watching...)
mrfufinache 58 months ago | reply
The IFE systems are independant from the avionics system on an airplane, the only OS that even close to windows or linux that I know of that's certified is lynxOS (http://www.lynuxworks.com/rtos/rtos-178.php).
There's usually button that will disengage any autopilot if it starts handling weirdly, and there's probably a fuse panel somewhere on the airplane (probably the cockpit) where they can just physical take out the fuse incase that button doesn't work.
loopkicks 54 months ago | reply
ive seen this many times on my flights on united haha
JonyTut 50 months ago | reply
Can I use this pic in our Novosibirsk Linux User Group site?