Virgin America Uses Linux to Entertain Inflight

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 28, 2008 @09:42PM from the slow-steady-creep dept.

anomalous cohort writes "CrunchGear has an interesting interview with the Director of Inflight Entertainment for the airline Virgin America, who discusses their adoption of Linux for the passenger's seat back computers. 'The ability to compose a music-video playlist is pretty cool and on the horizon. The READ section is also awesome in that it takes what is typically a bunch of wasted trees (excess newspapers, periodicals) and allows us to be more environmentally friendly and timely with things like news/event info/sports/entertainment etc.'"

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Old news by antifoidulus · 2008-03-28 21:50 · Score: 4, Informative

Delta and Continental have been using linux based systems for years. I know this because they ended up rebooting a lot and you get to see a nice penguin when it does.

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1. Re:Old news by Jafar00 · 2008-03-28 22:28 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Also Swiss Air, and Qatar Airlines from my recent experience. The Linux based in flight entertainment system is becoming a familiar sight and something I look forward to when flying longer haul sections of flight.
  
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