Linux on the sky…fly without wings….
According by pcworld, Panasonic eX2 Inflight Entertainment System (IFE) is flight entertainment system. All of Panasonic’s X Series of IFE systems powered by operating system that run on Linux.
The first Qantas aircraft, A380 will utilize the Panasonic eX2 Inflight Entertainment System (IFE) and will feature in Qantas next batch of B737-800 aircraft.
John Borghetti, executive general manager at Qantas said “Our system is state of the art and offers over 1000 entertainment options including everything from the latest release movies to our Lonely Planet destinational information as well as our tail mounted panoramic camera”.
The A380 is the industry’s first one-gigabit backbone system, and will deliver something in the order of 5Mbps of data to the seat said an article in Avionics Today.
Neil James, director of corporate sales and marketing for Panasonic Avionics said “That amount of bandwidth will provide not only high-quality video but concurrent capabilities like picture-in-picture, live text news and text messaging,”
Both, Business and Economy customers due in March 2009 and also B787 or Dreamliner aircraft due next year.
Linux…..fly so high..

Berawal dari program yang sudah saya buat untuk mencatat data temperature sensor di dos dengan clipper dan bisa berjalan dengan baik. Saya ingin mencoba apakah di linux ( saya pake Debian ) juga bisa berjalan dengan baik dengan dosemu. Step by step saya mulai prosesnya :

pertama, install dosemu (diasumsikan source list sudah diset ):
# apt-get install dosemu-freedos

setelah dosemu terinstallasi dengan baik, selanjutnya setting konfigurasi dosemu untuk menyesuaikan dengan enviroment program. Karena program saya menggunakan port com 1 sebagai komunikasi dengan alat sensornya.

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These are some basic linux commands :

cd dir : change directory to dir
cd : change to home
pwd : show current directory
mkdir dir : create a directory dir
rm file : delete file
rm -r dir : delete directory dir
rm -f file : force remove file
rm -rf dir : force remove directory dir *
cp file1 file2 : copy file1 to file2
cp -r dir1 dir2 : copy dir1 to dir2; create dir2 if it doesn’t exist
mv file1 file2 : rename or move file1 to file2
ln -s file link : create symbolic link link to file or directory
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