Good to hear from you and that is good news. On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:26 PM, wrote: > Unofficial (and unauthorized) disclosure: > As of tomorrow, the first Linux-based 'FAA positions' (air traffic > controller boxes) will be officially deployed in the 'En Route Air Traffic > Control System'. > That means that some controllers will be using Linux boxes instead of AIX > boxes to move *YOUR* airplane from here to there. > And that's only the tip of the iceberg... :) > For those of you 'uninitiated', there are essentially 4 phases to any > flight: > ground and take off, > departure (or approach), > transition and, > 'en route' > 'en route' will be all Linux in the future. > As a 'Computer Geek' (and Linux user of 1.5 decades) worming on that > software and a Commercial Pilot that talks over the radio with those > controllers, I am pretty thrilled about it... > ET > PS: Contact your congress representative and OPPOSE Air Traffic Control > privatization. > It will affect you in ways that you don't even imagine... > http://www.atcnotforsale.com/ > http://tinyurl.com/y7kw735t > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: