Curtis Olson wrote: > 3. I'll just toss in this unrelated item ... a week ago I got to fly > on a NWA A330. This aircraft had individual movie/music/game/map > displays for each seat. I managed to hang/lock mine up ... apparently > because the map wasn't working on this flight for some reason. So I > asked the flight attendent to reset the display and when she did, it > booted Linux of all things! I thought that was interesting. > > Regards, > > Curt. > -- > Curtis Olson - University of Minnesota - FlightGear Project > http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ > <http://baron.flightgear.org/%7Ecurt/> > http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ http://www.flightgear.org > Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d Linux isn't FAA certified so it's not used for mission-critical systems but in-flight entertainment systems would be very useful on Linux. You managed to figure out what distro the Airbus was running? Some custom one?
I do know that there is enough FAA certified hardware on the market capable of running RT-Linux, and I expect to see some of that hardware bleeding onto the instrument market. The A380 already does PC-based systems in its flight deck, although probably not in its entirety. Programming instrumentation in OpenGL is the way to go, and the avionics manufacturers picked that up, look at the ARINC661 standard for example. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
