Flying penguins on SIA

It not often that Singapore gets positive limelight in IT news (Yup I am refering to Odex...) but this article certainly sounds like something which will make IT people take a second look.

To make flying more enjoyable for its passengers, Singapore Airlines Ltd. is adding bigger screens, more in-flight movies and a PC, running Red Hat Inc.'s distribution of the Linux operating system, in every seat on its newest planes.

That by itself is nothing really special, but the following is what I guess really makes it stand out.

KrisWorld can also be used as a PC and includes Sun Microsystems Inc.'s StarOffice application suite, which offers a word processor, spreadsheet, and a presentation program. Every seat is fitted with a USB (Universal Serial Bus) port that lets passengers access documents carried on a thumb drive or portable hard disk.