On 10/7/07, Anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=869&num=1 > firefox + skype, boot time 5 sec. > Based on SplashTop. >
Nice. With the price of flash memory dropping, it was inevitable that someone would fit an embedded OS into flash. However, if you do have such an expensive board, how often would you boot to the limited embedded OS just to use Firefox and Skype? These apps seem a lot more suitable for cheap diskless machines (e.g. thin clients). On the other hand, I guess it won't take hackers very long to figure out how to replace the image with a more functional version. Adding system recovery tools (built-in rescue disk!), etc might make a lot more sense. A sort of related project is LinuxBIOS ( http://www.linuxbios.org/ ), though this Asus board seems to have more flash space available. Regards, Kerwin _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
