[Discuss] Is SplashTop really a revolution?

[Murray Strome]

The last time I had "instant on" with the OS loaded instantly was with my Commodore 64 computer!  It really would be nice to see that feature with LINUX being the OS loaded.

Murray

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan W. Irwin" <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca>
Date: Saturday, October 13, 2007 1:39 pm
Subject: [Discuss] Is SplashTop really a revolution?
To: discuss at vlug.org

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> Although proprietary at its core, SplashTop is revolutionary in 
> the sense
> that it draws a lot of attention to what it is possible to do 
> with the BIOS
> if it were completely free since it is a worthwhile feature to 
> have an
> instant-on Linux environment where you can browse the web 
> without having to
> do a full time-consuming boot from hard disk. Also, a lot of 
> SplashTop is
> based on free/open source software so the necessary distribution 
> of that
> source code may encourage instant-on mini-distributions of Linux 
> that are
> based on LinuxBIOS.
> 
> Alan