Continental *definitely* runs Linux on their inflight system. There is no doubt about it, I've seen it reboot *with* the penguin logo top left!!!
I'm trying to find out what this is as I'm dying to set up something similar myself, here's one message I posted for help on digitalspy.co.uk:
I recently flew Continental over from the US to the UK and got a business class seat as the flight was overbooked, and the guy in the seat next to me had a problem with his personal inflight entertainment system. The attendant reset his system and lo and behold, the Penguin logo and all the boot info scrolled on his screen. Unfortunately I wasn't brave enough to grab his screen to see what Linux distribution this was based on, and I couldn't figure out what it or the video/menu application was on my own system (damn! I should have asked the attendant to reboot *mine* as well!!!) but as it's utterly more cool than my poor setup at home I'd be *extremely* interested in knowing if anyone knows what Linux distribution and application Continental (and probably other airlines) use for their inflight touch-screen entertainment systems.
While its tablet world topping pixel density, Tegra 2 silicon, and fresh to death OS certainly sound awesome, we had to get our grubby mitts on one to see if it's as good as its spec sheet would have us believe.
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Continental *definitely* runs Linux on their inflight system. There is no doubt about it, I've seen it reboot *with* the penguin logo top left!!!
I'm trying to find out what this is as I'm dying to set up something similar myself, here's one message I posted for help on digitalspy.co.uk:
I recently flew Continental over from the US to the UK and got a business class seat as the flight was overbooked, and the guy in the seat next to me had a problem with his personal inflight entertainment system. The attendant reset his system and lo and behold, the Penguin logo and all the boot info scrolled on his screen. Unfortunately I wasn't brave enough to grab his screen to see what Linux distribution this was based on, and I couldn't figure out what it or the video/menu application was on my own system (damn! I should have asked the attendant to reboot *mine* as well!!!) but as it's utterly more cool than my poor setup at home I'd be *extremely* interested in knowing if anyone knows what Linux distribution and application Continental (and probably other airlines) use for their inflight touch-screen entertainment systems.