StarOffice Available On Singapore Airlines

Now this is keen. The idea is that for those times when customers are unable to use a laptop on the plane, they can instead work using the airlines built-in office program.

Thanks to new USB ports embedded in the armrest of each chair (near the headphone jack), passengers now can use a USB key (aka thumb drive) — or other portable drive — to access their documents, spreadsheets, and presentation files from software running on the plane’s Linux server.

The article doesn’t mention whether the there is a physical or on-screen keyboard to use, but I am assuming it’s the latter. Still, this is an interesting move and one that many will consider handy.

Source: Desktop Linux