Have any of you heard of this splashtop thing that ASUS partnering with. ??
http://www.splashtop.com/get.php http://www.geek.com/splashtops-instant-on-linux-desktop/
it's amazing. The BIOS and OS are so terribly slow, we fix it by ... replacing the bios with something that is not fast, thus running two OSes on a machine.
This is a weird business we are in :-)
ron
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:40 PM, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
This is a weird business we are in :-)
It's turtles all the way down!
-dhbarr.
Marc Karasek wrote:
Have any of you heard of this splashtop thing that ASUS partnering with. ??
http://www.splashtop.com/get.php http://www.geek.com/splashtops-instant-on-linux-desktop/
Splashtop just announced that Asus will be expanding the desktop to the P5Q motherboard family and later on to all Asus motherboards. That's embedded Linux shipping over over a million motherboards a month!
Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/14/173220
-Bari
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:42 PM, bari bari@onelabs.com wrote:
Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard
On Intel CPUs, I betcha they're using rapidboot, not coreboot. That's just a very uninformed guess.
I have to like this ... it means FOSS is going to be *most* of what used to be the BIOS.
I wonder if they'll offer source for it, since it's mostly GPL'ed stuff. If so we could also offer it as a coreboot payload :-) Maybe we should talk to them about having buildrom support it. They should like that as it is more market penetration.
ron
On 15.05.2008 02:47, ron minnich wrote:
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:42 PM, bari bari@onelabs.com wrote:
Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard
On Intel CPUs, I betcha they're using rapidboot, not coreboot. That's just a very uninformed guess.
They called it a "very fast BIOS" in some earlier press releases. Personally, I think coreboot didn't even show up on their radar.
I have to like this ... it means FOSS is going to be *most* of what used to be the BIOS.
I wonder if they'll offer source for it, since it's mostly GPL'ed stuff. If so we could also offer it as a coreboot payload :-) Maybe we should talk to them about having buildrom support it. They should like that as it is more market penetration.
Ah, the age-old source question. They pack lots of proprietary software there, so we're going to see only a fraction of the source code if any.
But there's one big benefit people tend to overlook: ROM size / onboard storage size. LAB is not only for ROM-affluent people anymore. And there's another reason we benefit as well: We can offer mostly the same package to any mainboard vendor for much lower development cost. It's limited to mostly non-Intel boards, though. That benefits AMD and VIA and SIS and they all are helping coreboot in some way. Telling a motherboard vendor something like "we can have something similar to splashtop running on most/all of your recent boards within a few weeks" could have some very interesting implications.
Bari, didn't you say you'll be at some trade show soon? Start floating that "alternative splashtop" line and look which vendors will bite.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
ron minnich wrote:
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:42 PM, bari bari@onelabs.com wrote:
Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard
On Intel CPUs, I betcha they're using rapidboot, not coreboot. That's just a very uninformed guess.
I have to like this ... it means FOSS is going to be *most* of what used to be the BIOS.
I wonder if they'll offer source for it, since it's mostly GPL'ed stuff. If so we could also offer it as a coreboot payload :-) Maybe we should talk to them about having buildrom support it. They should like that as it is more market penetration.
ron
there's a link when you look. they require your personal information thouhgh
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