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[News] Instant-on Linux from DeviceVM Nets $15,000,000

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DeviceVM gets venture capital, powers eee Box

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| The folks behind the SplashTop "instant-on" environment that we first saw at 
| the CES back in January has announced a new source of funding and the 
| inclusion of SplashTop on the eee Box.  DeviceVM is the company that produces 
| SplashTop, a hardware and software solution that allows notebooks to do basic 
| communication tasks without having to boot up into the main operating system.  
| Asus is including SplashTop on a number of notebook computers and DeviceVM is 
| also announcing that it will be installed on the eee Box, a desktop computer 
| from Asus.       
| 
| [...]
| 
| DeviceVM Announces Series C Funding of $15M, Led by New Enterprise Associates
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http://www.jkontherun.com/2008/08/devicevm-gets-v.html#more

Lots more 'Linux on board' to come.


Recent:

Inside Dell's 'BlackTop' laptop Linux OS

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| Dell’s new laptops sideline Windows with a fast-boot Linux OS and ARM
| processor to check email, browse the Web and even sync with Exchange.
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http://apcmag.com/Content.aspx?id=2804


SplashTop Linux On HP, Dell Notebooks?

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| Days after we delivered that inaugural review, we found out DeviceVM was in
| talks with OEMs about shipping SplashTop on desktops and notebooks.
|
| [...]
|
| In addition to the instant-on Linux excitement this week for the HP Envy 133,
| Dell is apparently working on a similar Linux solution. Engadget has shared
| details surrounding the Dell E and E Slim.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=splashtop_voodoo&num=1


Asus laptops get ‘instant-on Linux’

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| The Splashtop OS, which Asus rebrands as Express Gate, consist of a
| proprietary real-time ‘core engine’ called by the notebook’s BIOS, atop which
| sits a highly customised Linux stack
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http://apcmag.com/Content.aspx?id=2318


Embedded Linux goes Open Source

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| DeviceVM, the maker of Splashtop software which features embedded Linux "Fast 
| Boot" products like featured in the Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi-AP @n has just 
| released the source code to its software under GPL.  
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http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/11/21/asus_p5e3_embedded_linux_goes_open_source/1


SplashTop Source Code Released

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| These patches are for Bootsplash, 
| DVM, getting the CMOS time, adjusting the max loop, the sk98lin networking 
| driver, and SquashFS. Presently, the Linux kernel that SplashTop uses is 
| Linux 2.6.20.11.    
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=915&num=1


Feeling the heat at Microsoft

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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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