Linux sucks

Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:02 am   

http://www.abvolt.com/misc/A330-200_Linux.JPG

This is the TV console of A330 en route from Amsterdam to US. No movies
for the whole plane. However, watching their attempts of rebooting it
for an hour and a half was kind of entertaining BTW, the TV remote
control had some bugs as well.


Vladimir Vassilevsky
DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant
http://www.abvolt.com

Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:10 am   

"Vladimir Vassilevsky" <nospam_at_nowhere.com> wrote in message
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the average Joe to break.
Oh, and new versions are just as fun. You would think it came from
Redmond.

Cheers

Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:35 am   

Despite the fact that it's running a Linux kernel under the hood,
there's nothing on that screen that looks like a generic linux distro,
and it's already past the point where Linux itself is booting, and
well into the application software startup. Hence, I'm more inclined
to blame the group that created the custom software for the airline
than the Linux kernel itself. The last flight I was on, they couldn't
get the movie running either, but it was just a plain DVD player. My
daughter couldn't get her truck to start one day - she was out of gas.
We didn't blame the truck's manufacturer for that, either.

Usually when I have trouble getting a Linux box to boot, it turns out
to be my own stupid fault, not the software's fault.

So before you go blaming "Linux" for problems, find out what the
*real* cause of the problem is. Otherwise you're just being a
scaremonger.

Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:36 am   

"Vladimir Vassilevsky" <nospam_at_nowhere.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I went with KLM last year and the same happened, but the crew managed after
half an hour. Good films tho, "angels and demons" w. Tom Hanks.
ciao Ban

Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:53 am   

Am 02.02.2010 05:02, schrieb Vladimir Vassilevsky:

That only shows that Linux (the kernel) is working well. It is even
telling, what is going wrong. (Missing files)

Falk

Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:09 pm   

"Ban" <bansuri_at_web.de> wrote in message news:hk8h5o$lnf$1_at_news.eternal-september.org...

Wow, you really call that a good movie?

M

Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:40 pm   

"TheM" <DontNeedSpam_at_test.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:30 pm   

"Ban" <bansuri_at_web.de> wrote in message news:hk8ver$q3s$1_at_news.eternal-september.org...

Fair enough :)

M

Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:16 pm   

On 2/02/2010 3:10 PM, Martin Riddle wrote:

In this application, booting the system off a DVD drive, and having two
drives (or two computers), and spare boot DVDs would seem the way to go.
Nothing like unwritable media for guaranteeing that things don't get
stuffed up after they're working (provided the BIOS settings are left
alone).

The failure to find an ext2 filesystem on a loopback device doesn't
really sound to me like an application problem.

But I'm not sympathetic to the subject line premise, having spent three
days recovering from the mess that occurred after letting Windows XP do
one of its overly frequent security updates - it would no longer boot -
and my reinstall attempts failed as well due to Windows XP in its pre
SP1 form being incapable of driving my present hardware (that took a
while to realise, because it kept looking like a HDD problem or
motherboard problem).

Sylvia.

Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:25 pm   

Vladimir Vassilevsky Inscribed thus:


Hard drive failure !

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Best Regards:
Baron.

Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:00 pm   

On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:02:21 -0600, Vladimir Vassilevsky
<nospam_at_nowhere.com> wrote:


Airbus should have chose a better maker of connection equipment.

Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:02 pm   

On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:53:25 +0100, Falk Willberg
<Faweglassenlk_at_falk-willberg.de> wrote:



More like missing volume(s).

Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:09 pm   

On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:16:54 +1100, Sylvia Else
<sylvia_at_not.at.this.address> wrote:


Bullshit. Solid state drives or regular old hard drives.



That's what boot volumes and the like are for. Connection OS is not
from an optical disc.


It was still booting, but the volume could not be found, so it sounds
like a failed external storage server has failed.


You come in the group and act overly uneducated in the computing realm,
so what is different?


You and your IT dept has never heard of slipstreaming? Jeez, you can
even DL slipstreamed discs with the most recent SP built in. Your
specialized drivers as well (if needed).

You one of those "re-install everything, hopelessly fail and blame it
on Redmond" twits, aren't ya?

Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:13 pm   

On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:25:43 +0000, baron
<baron.nospam_at_linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wrote:


NAS server failure more likely.

Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:02 pm   

Archimedes' Lever Inscribed thus:


Either way it can't find what its looking for.

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Baron.