<p dir="ltr">Hmm. The nonresponse sounds familiar to my experience last night. Sad.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 20, 2013 4:28 PM, "Derek Atkins" <<a href="mailto:derek@ihtfp.com">derek@ihtfp.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
<br>
On Wed, November 20, 2013 10:48 am, JD wrote:<br>
> On 11/20/2013 09:13 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
>> Greetings from Cambridge, UK!<br>
>><br>
>> On the Delta flight over I noticed the entertainment system had Tux on<br>
>> it<br>
>> during boot up. I saw enough of the startup to it's a RedHat based<br>
>> system using<br>
>> "red boot" which is RHEL4 I think.<br>
>> The GUI is a custom one that needs some more polish (clunky touch screen<br>
>> fubar'ed into a non-English mode and there was no route back other than<br>
>> rebooting my display system.).<br>
>> Pictures of a boot screen were taken while taxiing to runway. Can't post<br>
>> from<br>
>> here without size edits but will later for those interested.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> It has been the same system for at least 3 yrs. On one trip, the entire<br>
> setup<br>
> died about 40 minutes into the 8+ hr flight, never to work again. Got 15K<br>
> miles<br>
> for that inconvenience by complaining and saying nice things about the<br>
> crew.<br>
> KLM's system has a nicer GUI and is also Linux.<br>
<br>
I think it's even longer than that. I believe that Lufthansa also uses a<br>
Linux-based system.<br>
<br>
However, Delta has been rolling out a "software upgrade" recently which,<br>
IMHO, is a downgrade. The system is IMHo less responsive to touches (I<br>
feel I have to press harder now, and there is a significant delay between<br>
a press and a reaction from the system) and the in-flight map doesn't do<br>
the auto-zooming and info-page swapping that the old system used, making<br>
it much less useful and informative.<br>
<br>
-derek<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
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