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Linux in Flight: The Penguin Grows Wings
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| Another place in the aviation world, much to my surprise, that Linux has not
| only crept into, but appears to be gaining steam, is the maintenance arena.
| Yes, seriously. Tux is helping more and more in the arena of aircraft
| maintenance. It's nice to know that there's a reliable OS powering a wide
| number of computers and diagnostic tools these days that help keep our
| favorite, and not so favorite, airplanes flying.
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| And that's not all. Linux is finding its way into baggage handling systems,
| ticket systems, and so much more. You could say that the penguins are taking
| over the airline business. So the next time you hop a flight to wherever
| you're going, feel good in knowing that it's very likely you're taking a
| penguin with you.
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=434
Related:
Virgin America tunes up with YSlow
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| The travel start up has been making great use of open source in its software
| infrastructure during the launch phase, with Red Hat and Fedora running in
| its data center and on its web servers, a virtual private network using open
| source, and in-flight entertainment severs using MySQL and back-of-seat TV
| sets that are powered by Panasonic's Linux aboard its aircraft.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/26/virgin_america_open_source/
Linux-based airline seat-back entertainment system is a winner
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| This Red Hat-based system also is installed on Qantas Airways and on Boeing
| 777s operated by Delta and Continental. eX2, the newest version of
| Panasonic's in-flight entertainment systems, offers not the canned radio
| stations of yesteryear, but rather audio and video on demand, games, and even
| online books, depending on the carrier.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/119544
Singapore Airlines puts a PC in every seat
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| The whole system runs on Red Hat's distribution of the Linux operating
| system.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=686973581&rid=-50
StarOffice, Linux fly high on Singapore Airlines
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| Singapore Airlines is offering access to Sun's StarOffice 8 office
| productivity suite free of charge to passengers on its new Boeing
| 777-300ER aircraft. StarOffice, Sun's proprietary version of
| OpenOffice.org, runs on the aircraft's Linux server and is accessed
| via a seat-back terminal at each passenger's seat, according to Sun.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2964256534.html
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
Real-time Linux helps design military cargo plane
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| Airbus reportedly tapped real-time Linux in designing its A400M
| military transport plane, set to ship this year. Concurrent said
| it supplied the German airplane manufacturer with real-time
| Linux-based systems used for hardware-in-loop (HIL) simulation
| test stands used to perfect the A400M's "high-lift control computers."
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2280514361.html
Demo features POSIX-compliant separation kernel, Linux
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| LynuxWorks says its simulated aircraft demo for EAC shows a pair
| of applications running on a Linux guest OS, alongside a secure
| application running on top of LynxSecure. The demo will show that
| failure of the guest Linux OS does not impair operation of the
| LynxSecure application, the company says.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3915085266.html
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
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