Comments on: The Sony Bravia LCD TVs run Linux

By: Yasir

Yasir — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:30:36 +0000

Yep you are right, it’s more stable!! no BSOD and messages like dumping started on win vista etc…since the kernel is open souce, people are more likely to understand how to interface with Microcontrollers like PIC/ATMEL/AVR etc.. Windows Driver Model (WDM) is kind of restricted and writing drivers for devices are required lots of attention..I guess with linux, many programmers are here to help.

regards,
Yasir

By: avinash

avinash — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:56:57 +0000

In fact, Linux in airplanes (or in the space shuttle for that matter) is relatively common as in a lot of other embedded devices like phones, electronic appliances (Tivo, Linksys WRT54G, Lacie hard disks, McAfee firewalls, etc.)

I guess the main reason is that the Linux kernel is extremely reliable and customisable unlike you know what

By: Yasir

Yasir — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:30:39 +0000

Even Air Mauritius uses Linux as OS in their planes The flight was kinda boring and I thought of watching a movie but when I tried to access the movie’s section using that wired hand-held device, I saw something like:

Error
Rebooting
Loading Linux Kernel 2.something…

didn’t expect open source software on planes

By: selven

selven — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:27:47 +0000

good to know

those are the types of articles that does show up the world where the opensource community has reached