Showing posts with label Open Source. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Open Source. Show all posts

Monday, August 27, 2007

First A380 Tickets Up for Auction

Seats on the first flight of an Airbus A380 will be auctioned off starting today on Ebay. The flight will be from Singapore to Sydney on October 25 and tickets are expected to fetch upwards of $2,550.00. Every seat on the Singapore Airlines A380s will be equipped with a PC running Redhat Linux -- and those PCs in first class will come with a 23" monitor.

Friday, April 28, 2006

FAA saves by switching to Linux

The Federal Aviation Administration and Red Hat issued a press release this week announcing that the FAA saved $15 Million by migrating its systems to Linux. The move made the systems' operation 30% more efficient than the previous system with 50% of the operating costs.

Could more public agencies move to open source systems?

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