Experienced this system on multiple different Singapore Airline flights recently. Generally fairly good but multiple machines needing rebooting - seemed to be the proprietary system locking up rather than Linux as you could see the Linux kernel booting just fine! Systems were very slow on older planes 747/777 but faster on A380 but still some parts had badly written software as some parts were fast and some parts were slow (30 second wait after pressing a key). A380 has full OpenOffice installed and a USB socket so you can work on documents on your USB key. Tested it and it certainly worked fine! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: imcdnzl <ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz> Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:43 AM Subject: Linux takes a seat on Qantas' new superjumbo To: ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz Sent to you by imcdnzl via Google Reader: Linux takes a seat on Qantas' new superjumbo<http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/C1160957CBF12890CC2574E200690BDA> via Computerworld <http://computerworld.co.nz/> on 10/14/08 Flight entertainment systems powered by Linux Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Computerworld<http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.idg.net.nz%2Frss%2Fcomputerworld.xml?source=email>using *Google Reader* - Get started using Google Reader<http://www.google.com/reader/?source=email>to easily keep up with *all your favorite sites* -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/, http://www.jandi.co.nz Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz