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SplashTop "Instant-On Linux" Gets Hacked

Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 30th Jul 2008 14:39 UTC

SplashTop is an instant-on Linux environment created by DeviceVM. SplashTop does not intend to provide a full computing environment, but it satisfies a home user's basic needs such as email, VOIP, IM, etc. Asus is the primary partner of DeviceVM and SplashTop started to get bundled with Asus motherboards and Asus notebooks. Now the good folks over at the Phoronix Forums have hacked SplashTop to run from a USB stick on non-Asus motherboards, run custom applications and launch a terminal inside the Linux environment.

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Article Title

by stestagg on Wed 30th Jul 2008 15:27 UTC

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2006-06-03

Somewhat misleading title imo.

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RE: Article Title

by FunkyELF on Wed 30th Jul 2008 15:30 in reply to "Article Title"

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2006-07-26

Somewhat misleading title imo.

Yeah, I was expecting to read about an exploit in some service that gets started.

Also, is this really a big deal? How is this different than running a Live CD or any other "live" distro from a USB stick?

Sabayon has a mini edition that can actually save files on the drive between boots.

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RE[2]: Article Title

by ChiliJ on Wed 30th Jul 2008 15:48 in reply to "RE: Article Title"

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2005-08-12

If it is still instant-on (boots in 5 secs), then that's a big deal.

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