Like I said too bad they didn’t choose an American bird or original American software, but if you want to focus on the foreign born software Linux, it already has a well documented history of crashing on Airbus flights, look it up sometime.
*sigh* When will I ever learn? You don't read other people's posts, you just trash Linux.
Read carefully: I stated that I would have preferred OS X (that's an American BSD, GE). But since Apple refuses to license OS X to run on non-Apple hardware (they are after all a hardware company), and since Apple doesn't build flight-qual hardware suitable for installation on airplanes, the only thing left was Linux.
Well GE, I’m sure since Singapore air is in business to lose money, they went out and chose a deliberately inferior OS to make sure it would be a customer and maintenance nightmare.
Wait. What’s that you say? They’re in business to make money and not to lose it? And given that they would tend to go with a superior OS? Hmmmm.