Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: > On 19-Dec-07, at 10:17 PM, Sarang Lakare wrote: > >> This is interesting: I recently boarded a kingfisher flight and their >> onboard entertainment system was rebooting. Guess what, its based on >> linux! The bad thing was the bootup time was really lengthy ;-). It >> had kernel 2.6.22 I think. > > Just wondering what was the hardware they were using :) > Maybe it linux was the best for given task on that hardware.
All commercial airline softwares have to confirm to a standard - DO 178B & from my previous knowledge only LynxWorks have their software stack based on linux certified. http://www.lynuxworks.com/ And I am sure, the airline industry never had faith on Windoze!! Cheers Aditya -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
