Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 22nd Apr 2009 01:22 UTC
Instant-On is an attractive to have for any system, but most commercial OSs haven't been able to accomplish this. Users are generally left waiting the few minutes to boot, and for some people in a hurry, that's simply not good enough. The aptly named program known as Presto is available for $19.95, and is installable on most any Windows computers. It installs a Xandros-based partition and boots up quite instantly. "Presto allows on-the-fly computing to check email, browse the web, chat with friends, make Skype calls, create documents, download media, apps and games, or enjoy music, videos, and movies stored in a userâs Windows folders." I'd say that's worth $20, and they're also offering to work with OEMs to get it on new computers on a mass scale.
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Sounds cool. I'm gonna try it on my older laptop that runs Windows- hope it has wireless drivers. I'm a little disappointed that it is only distributed as a Windows executable. Does anyone know if they have any plans to create a means of installing this on a system that only has Linux, or some other alternative operating system on it? Or even for that matter, to install it as the only operating system on an otherwise empty machine.