Not for flight control systems, which is what you lied about in your post in that article. I like how the photo you showed wasn't even of the same kind of plane as the one the article was about.
and are experiencing a myriad of issues because of it.
While it's never impossible to experience issues with any OS, they're apparently experiencing issues due to poorly written vendor (Panasonic, IIRC) software, not Linux itself. As I said, look at the screen, it's not a kernel panic (= Windows BSOD), but Linux waiting for the software. This is as opposed to the Windows system that screwed up air traffic control due to a bug in Windows itself.
How bad does your OS have to be that SOP is rebooting the machine once a month? Funny thing is that the vendor for that advertised over five nines, which is impossible with 12 Windows reboots in a year (or seven if you let it go to restart automatically).
Could still get 5 9's on a system, just not a server... I.e. Failover clustering..
So maybe my pic was of a different Airbus line, I was responding to the lies they use Windows, which is nowhere on those planes, is it. If you want to go correct someone, go correct those people, they couldn't have been more wrong, but since they were smearing MS you were just fine with it.
Yes, as I understand it, the in-flight entertainment systems are the only problem, and that lies largely with Panasonic...the article where Buzzy posted the picture actually referenced a physical problem, not anything with Linux. Also, I saw that the system Panasonic uses is actually RedHat 6 with some of their own applications running on top of it, but I didn't have a chance to verify that.
Incidently, I did find this anecdotal excerpt, which I found interesting. Don't know if it's true or not:
"My father used to do aircraft maintenance and said that early Airbus' aircrafts used MS Windows system. If they ever lost current during a flight, passengers would not be able to listen to music for at least 20 min...
I guess Airbus got fed up of complaints and they now use another entertainment system, which happens to run Linux ;)"
Here's an incident report from the article on the other thread. From what I can tell, it's simply outlining some preventive procedures and telling how to get the instrument panel back online after a power interruption. Nothing is mentioned about Linux in the report, that I could find. Seems to be a physical problem, as the report describes an audible "clunk" right before the power interruption.
http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/cms_resources/S3-2006%20G-EUOB.pdf
I did the search as GE suggested. Found the above, but didn't find the "myriad" of problems that he was talking about.