[SATLUG] Linux aircraft

[HAYES DENNIS]

As an aircraft mechanic I can tell you that the systems are redundent. Not sure of the OS but it is not MS or DOS. 

Alex Bartonek <bartonekdragracing at yahoo.com> wrote:  

--- "R. Tyler Ballance" wrote:

> 
> On Nov 1, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Chris Lemire wrote:
> 
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/milliped/116393699/
> >
> > I would like to know what was the uptime on Linux
> running this 
> > airplane before it crashed or cvs locked up. I
> would find a 
> > different airplane if it was running Vista.
> 
> As somebody mentions in the comments, that's not a
> Linux crash per 
> se, but a boot up (I've crashed Linux, FreeBSD and
> Mac OS X in quite 
> spectacular ways, and it doesn't look like that,
> i.e. a kernel 
> bootstrapping ;))
> 
> Also, take confidence in knowing that the people
> that build airplanes 
> are not completely retarded and understand that
> systems should be 
> redundant and parallel, meaning that the same system
> that runs the 
> entertainment system is not even closely tied to the
> flight 
> navigation system (which most likely runs a custom
> OS or QNX)



Looks like network issues?



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