Singapore Airlines upgrades 'KrisWorld'

Monday, August 27. 2007

Singapore Airlines upgrades 'KrisWorld'

Singapore Airlines is adding bigger screens, and a Red Hat distribution of the Linux, in every seat on its newest planes. "KrisWorld" (cool name!) is their in-flight entertainment system which consists of a central Linux server and 'fat' clients in every seat.

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. The port can also be used to connect a USB keyboard or mouse, making it easier for business travellers to create and edit documents without having to dig out their laptops and power cords

- Network World I wonder why they called it KrisWorld....

Posted by Kris Sum in Tech at 10:21 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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