"Singapore Airlines is offering access to Sun's StarOffice 8 office productivity suite free of charge to passengers on its new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. StarOffice, Sun's proprietary version of OpenOffice.org, runs on the aircraft's Linux server and is accessed via a seat-back terminal at each passenger's seat, according to Sun.
"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..."
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My first ever post on work, its one of those things you really want to just talk about.
Yup, been working on this project since 2004, and being binded in an NDA, I'm sworn to secrecy....but I guess I can tell a bit more about it now.. :)
It has been a challenging project, and the scale of getting such a complex Application to run on an "embedded" system certainly posed very interesting issues. Well, I'm not here to discuss this today. So just wanna sit back and enjoy the articles.
Here's one from the ever popular Digg.com:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/StarOffice_Linux_fly_high_on_Singapore_Airlines
Couple more links:
http://bigblog.com/linux/staroffice-takes-to-the-skies-955726932.html
http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/111/5/news/18166
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