Mega hands-on: Virgin America's Airbus A320 with Red in-flight entertainment
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| They definitely weren't kidding when they said it's got it all:
| movies on demand, pervasive music playlists, in-seat messaging
| with a QWERTY controller, touchscreen Linux consoles with
| games, the works.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/10/mega-hands-on-virgin-americas-airbus-a320-with-red-in-flight-e/
Gallery:
http://www.engadget.com/photos/mega-hands-on-virgin-americas-airbus-a320-with-red-in-flight-entertainment/
It's like some sort of a parallel universe where everything is Open Source
and people can play multiplayer games using the on-board network. More
details below.
Related:
Linux headed into Boeing anti-sub aircraft
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| Boeing has awarded Wind River Systems a contract to embed its version
| of Linux into a new military aircraft, the company plans to announce
| Monday along with a new batch of products built around the
| open-source operating system.
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http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6100043.html?part=rss&tag=6100043&subj=news
Over 30s VAX, Linux breeds Boeing's new jets
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| Hawker de Havilland, the local arm of aircraft engineering giant Boeing,
| will retire its 30-year-old VAX system in favour of its new Linux-based
| environment in the manufacture of parts for the company's next-generation
| 787 jets.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1834585068;fp;2;fpid;1
Here's an entire airplane booting GNU/Linux.
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=17308794&size=l
A geek's dream plane
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| Every seat has a 9in LCD screen in the seatback in front of you that runs
| on embedded linux
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http://johncacka.com/a-geeks-dream-plane/
Delta Airlines runs Red Hat
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| Anyway, given how hard it is to get success stories/press releases/etc.
| out of enterprises, I figured I'd announce this one for Delta. Delta
| runs Linux.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/delta_airlines.html
http://www.letvafly.com/VADIFE.php
"Open source video games (and a future invitation for savvy linux game
developers to participate in Red)"
Want YOUR game featured on Virgin America's In-Flight Entertainment
System?
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| Red is an embedded system and we would like to invite members from the
| linux community to think about open source apps that might add to
| our offering.
|
| [...]
|
| Areas to Consider Before Expressing Interest
| 1. In the spirit of open source, the license needs to be LGPL /
| GPL
| 2. Platform ? Redhat Linux 7.3
| 3. Runs under TinyX (xfbdev)
| 4. Max Screen size 1024x600 (Preferably configurable using the
| Geometry Setting)
|
| [...]
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| For single-player games
| 1. Binary size (including dependencies like audio files, images,
| libraries) - less than 10MB expanded
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| For multi-player network games
| 1. Binary size (including dependencies like audio files, images,
| libraries) for client - less than 10 MB expanded
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http://www.letvafly.com/mt/2007/02/want_your_game_featured_on_vir.html
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