SplashTop (ASUS Express Gate) "Instant-On Linux" Gets Hacked

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At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

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Title: SplashTop "Instant-On Linux" Gets Hacked ( -at -) Phoronix

Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12664

Summary: "Last October we were the first to deliver a full-review of

DeviceVM's SplashTop which was an instant-on embedded Linux distribution

at the time found on a lone ASUS motherboard. Since then there has been

a commitment to SplashTop on all ASUS motherboards and even on ASUS

notebooks. While ASUS has been the primary partner with DeviceVM up to

this point, other manufacturers are exploring this market. One of our

few gripes about SplashTop is that it's limited in the current

applications available and doesn't allow for much tweaking with no

terminal access. However, members of the Phoronix Forums have hacked

SplashTop. They have been able to run SplashTop from a USB stick on

non-ASUS motherboards, boot SplashTop within a virtual machine, run

custom applications, and launch a terminal within this proprietary Linux

environment."

 

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