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Korean Air Mission Critical Systems Moved to Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the good-work-tux dept.

securitas writes "ZDNet is reporting that Korean Air has decided to move its flight-crew scheduling and daily accounting systems to Linux running on an IBM mainframe, and 5000 users will access this information through their browsers starting in September. "

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  1. KAL's real problem by shri · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Folks, lets not get excited. Their real problem is preventing their pilots (most of them ex Air Force jocks) from crashing their planes. The seem to bring an airliner down more often than their software.

  2. Less flight screwups? by itsnotme · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Well at least this way, you wont hear the airline people saying, " Well sir! We're sorry but we had a scheduling screwup because some sort of blue screen came up then the computer just crashed! Honest! Your flight is cancelled! ".. now you'll just hear " Your flight is on time sir! You can board in 5 minutes "

    Ah gotta love them switching over to Linux, maybe now more airlines will see how they can avoid their scheduling computers crashing now.. I've seen too many computers at the check-in desk crashing but on the other hand, I'm pretty sure the check-in people wont know what the heck to do if they saw a command prompt.. "Uhh theres a word.. 'bash' with an pound sign next to it.. whats that mean?"

    I suppose next they'll have to educate the masses on how to use Linux but hey, at least they'll be more reliable now!

  3. Just as well... by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    If they were running air traffic control systems on Microsoft, Code Red could cause a Code Red...

    One would hope any system where lives are at stake would switch to using Linux. Does anyone know of any lives lost due to a computer screw up caused by Microsoft software?