Originally Posted by
jimmc66
If Panasonic Aero has anything to do with it, it will be just as junky as the IFE systems they're providing. Built on 10+ year old Linux "open source" software, the systems routinely crash, bluescreen, and reboot on the Airbox 380's.
Linux may be 10 years old, but it's updated every few minutes (literally). I run a lot of linux
What Panasonic do with it though, that's anyones guess. And it's still infinitely better than the 744 IFE.
Linux may be Open Source, but what you put on it doesn't have to be. Cisco, Check Point, Nokia, and many other very very large companies release products based on some kind of Linux/Unix/Solaris/BSD platform. Not all are open source platforms, but most are (the given examples use mainly Fedora Core/Red Hat). Blame bad coding from Panasonic