Star SplashTop "Instant-On Linux" Gets Hacked
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 30th Jul 2008 14:39 UTC
Linux 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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RE[3]: Article Title
by amjith on Wed 30th Jul 2008 15:50 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Article Title"
amjith
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2005-07-08

I think the Linux.com article says it boots up in about 9secs.

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by WorknMan on Wed 30th Jul 2008 16:22 in reply to "RE[3]: Article Title"
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2005-11-13

I think the Linux.com article says it boots up in about 9secs.


It boots up in 5 seconds from the boot ROM, but if you change it to boot from a flash drive, you pretty remove what made it unique to begin with, no?

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