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Airborne Linux Hackers Unite!

Publication:NY TimesDate:Aug 07 2007
Reporter:John Markoff

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Virgin America calls their new in-flight entertainment system “Red,” but it is really a gigantic sociological experiment in airborne distributed computing.

First consider the idea of a plane full of networked, Linux-based computers. (There will be one in each of the seat backs of the A319 and A320 jets that are to inaugurate service between San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., this week.)




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