Air New Zealand's in-flight entertainment system runs Linux. Unfortunately the layer of software that Air NZ has deployed on top of Linux is buggy and I noticed at least twice in one 3-hour flight that it crashed, causing Linux to reboot. (This is what led me to discover the systems run Linux.) Watching Linux boot on the seat-back console screen was fun. And it was nice to see Tux the Penguin about the airline. Each console is also accompanied by a single USB port. I doubt it is connected to the hardware in the seat-back, but is nevertheless useful to charge iPods, cellphones and even other devices -- it gave me the electrical-juice I lacked to write most of this blog post on the flight home from a holiday in Tonga. I spent a few minutes trying to hack the seat-back console to poke around their Linux installation. However my hacking skills and experience with desktop-Linux are lacking and I was unable to get out Air NZ's application or interrupt boot using the keyboard on the controller -- I only got one chance at this when my fiancée's console rebooted unexpectedly.