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SplashTop “Instant-On Linux” Gets Hacked

Some cunning members of the Phoronix Forums have managed to get Splashtop to run off a USB stick on non-ASUS motherboards, boot Splashtop within a virtual machine, run customs applications and open terminal.

Considering that ASUS is going to put Splash top on all of it’s future motherboards and on some of it’s notebooks, it seems that this is going to get interesting.

If I can get Splashtop running in VirtualBox, I’ll be sure to post the results here.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 at 09:20 and is filed under Distributions, Open Source, Software, Who knows?. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  1. The Proliferation of Linux » Blog Archive » Splashtop/ExpressGate Update & Gallery says:
    30.07.2008 at 20:28

    [...] I promised earlier, here’s an update on the hacking of Splashtop.  I got it to run within QEMU and from a USB [...]

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