Plane full of seat-back GNU/Linux
Colin sez, "Since I work at a university managing a Windows network Microsoft sent me to their TechEd conference last week. They even paid for my hotel and airfare.
"As I got on the plane they had to cycle the power and I saw that the system that ran the seatback entertainment systems was running GNU/Linux. As near as I can tell each seat back has it's on computer dedicated to it because they can reboot single seats.
"After we landed I stuck around and talked the flight crew into rebooting the entire system so I could take pictures. I got a few shots of the entire plane with the GNU/Linux boot screen on each screen."
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(Thanks, Colin!)
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