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TAP Airbus pictured booting Linux 2.4
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| Nearly 2 years ago Slashdot covered the news that Airbus was to include Linux
| in every seat on the new A380. Well, we just found out(the fun way) that the
| A330 already does.
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http://zefonseca.com/blogs/zen/tap-airbus-pictured-running-linux-24/
Recent:
Linux and luxury: Behind the scenes on the Emirates Airbus A380
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| We take a look at the Emirates Airbus A380's high-tech luxuries and
| Linux-based Panasonic Aviation eX2 in-flight entertainment system.
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http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/295995/linux_luxury_behind_scenes_emirates_airbus_a380?fp=2&fpid=2
TOPCASED: System development using Open Source
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| Led by aircraft manufacturer Airbus, several companies located in the French
| Aerospace Valley close to Toulouse have, therefore, formed a consortium and
| initiated the TOPCASED Open Source project to create the necessary system
| development tools. TOPCASED is an acronym for Toolkit in Open source for
| Critical Applications & Systems Development.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/TOPCASED-System-development-using-Open-Source--/features/110028
Avionica Releases Iridium(TM) Portal Technology Under Open Source License
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| In its present state, the Iridium satellite system cannot accept pre- emptive
| Air Traffic Control calls to the cockpit (does not support call waiting).
| Avionica's Iridium(TM) Portal technology provides this capability.
|
| [...]
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| Avionica will be releasing the Iridium(TM) Portal technology under the GNU
| GPLv3 license.
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-avionica-releases-iridiumtm-portal-technology-under-open-source-/2008/02/07/3256848.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3dyjpe
Linux powers in-flight entertainment centers
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| Australia's top airline carrier has reportedly chosen Linux in-flight
| entertainment (IFE) systems for four planes. The report says Qantas will
| deploy Panasonic's new EX2 IFEs, which Panasonic says use fiber channel
| backbones to deliver movies, news, shopping, and other services to up to 600
| passengers.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5534592156.html?kc=rss
Linux takes a seat on Qantas’ new superjumbo
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| The Flying Kangaroo will soon become the Flying Penguin as Qantas embraces
| Linux-powered Inflight Entertainment systems from Panasonic.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1980267549&rid=-50
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
Airbus is banking on open source
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| Mr. Ladier said that open source had meanwhile attained such a
| degree of maturity that it was now a credible solution for the
| creation of innovative, reliable system development tools
| designed to be maintained over long periods of time.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/82898/from/rss09
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