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Old Sep 2, 2009 | 1:27 am
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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.
Based on the reboot that occured on my recent Emirates 777 flight (1-yr old A6-ECD) am pretty confident that the Panasonic IFE uses XP Embedded


Note also the bluescreen is windows terminology, Linux (of its various modern and updated forms) typically uses an OOPS black screen
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