Speaking of rebooting embedded Linux systems, last fall I was returning from a vacation and while passengers were boarding the plane the entertainment systems on the back of the seats were rebooted.  During POST one could see that they were running Linux :-).

I took a few photos of the reboot and put them on Flickr  under Creative Commons licensing if anyone wants to reuse:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmgomes/sets/72157611847179809/

The entertainment systems had a ton of features and are similar to the systems found on Jet Blue (including timeshifted cable/satellite programs) and had some nice features like free recently released movies (I saw Dark Knight and Hancock that night), music player w/ user managed playlists, and active GPS maps.  The kicker for me was a live camera on the nose of the plane showing the action from two viewpoints (straight forward and towards the ground) which was very nice for landing and takeoffs.  The camera was disabled for a short time around touch down and lift-off times but you got to see the approaches and taxi.

thanks,
C.G.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:
Most of the video poker machines at the bar are Linux based. I've seen several reboot, all on linux.


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Joe <lists@joefleming.net> wrote:
Blackbox isn't a distro, it's a window manager. Still, sounds pretty
awesome, in an extremely geeky sort of way (just the way I like it).
Only OS screens I've even seen in casinos before was in Vegas on some
random terminals and such.... and it was all windoze :(

-Joe

mike havens wrote:
> I was in a casino down here in florida and there happened to be a problem
> with the power. All of the machines shut off and then rebooted. First they
> posted and then the Phoenix logo appeared (the computer thingy.... not the
> cities logo). Then, to my wonder, Lilo started and after the boot process I
> found out what their distro was; it was Blackbox.
>
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