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..