All About Linux 2008: Penguins fly! An interview with Charles Ogilvie, Virgin
America’s head of In-Flight Entertainment
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| CG: Why did you pick linux for RED?
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| CO: Linux is very stable and agile. We were able to pare down the embedded
| seat-back side to only the libraries we need, license a container app and
| then write the code needed to tie everything together
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http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/03/27/all-about-linux-2008-penguins-fly-an-interview-with-charles-virgin-airs-head-of-in-flight-entertainment/
It's not a question of money. Linux just works better. It's not just Virgin
America which chose Linux for the airplanes.
Related:
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
Airborne Linux Hackers Unite!
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| Virgin America calls their new in-flight entertainment system “Red,” but it
| is really a gigantic sociological experiment in airborne distributed
| computing.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/airborne-linux-hackers-unite/
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/
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