149 Linux Boxes on every Virgin America flight
They are variants of Red Hat & Fedora. Virgin America’s director of in-flight entertainment Charles Ogilvie explains in this CrunchGear interview.
I’ve been on several planes with in-flight entertainment systems running Linux. They’ve occasionally had to reboot them- and I get a kick out of watching the Linux kernel boot. I was on a Lufthansa flight 3 years ago, and after someone complained about a black box under the seat blocking him from putting an excessively large bag underneath- the flight attendant told him each screen has it’s own computer under the seat. They use a server to stream the content out to individual computers that display it. It’s great- because it allows for interactive games (trivia) and individualized pay-per-view movies. So- in short- nothing really remarkable here. I do LOVE to see Linux in wide-spread use like this.
