Will pre-installed virtualization challenge Linux leaders?
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| We have been hearing rumblings about the server operating system and its role
| being disrupted by virtualization as companies such as VMware push hypervisor
| and virtualization management software beyond the OS directly to the server.
| The company highlighted the shift with a series of significant
| pre-installation announcements during VMworld Europe last week.
|
| [...]
|
| Still, servers that ship with no OS as opposed to having RHEL pre-installed
| would seem likely to have an impact on a company whose bread and butter
| business is pre-installation on servers, wouldn’t it?
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/03/04/will-pre-installed-virtualization-challenge-linux-leaders/
Recent:
Preboot environment turns PC into CE
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| DeviceVM demonstrated a Linux-powered PC preboot application environment that
| lets users instantly run several Internet-based applications — including Web
| browsing and Skype messaging — at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
| last week.
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http://www.deviceguru.com/2008/01/18/preboot-environment-turns-pc-into-ce/
Microsoft nonchalant about Phoenix assault on Windows
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| BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies Ltd.'s plans to market a new application
| platform the company claims will solve a number of problems endemic to
| Microsoft's Windows platform might be taken as a provocative gesture at their
| longtime partner. But Redmond's immediate reaction was nonchalant.
|
| On Monday, the Milpitas, Calif. software maker announced Hyperspace, a
| Linux-based virtualization platform that will let OEMs bundle cut-down
| versions of popular open-source software that end users will be able to
| access instantly, even without booting Windows.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software&articleId=9045662&taxonomyId=18&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/3depfj
Phoenix HyperSpace: Quick-Boot Your Laptop
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| Phoenix Technologies' new HyperSpace is an instant-on environment for
| laptops, letting users launch a browser or other apps with booting into the
| OS.
|
| Today, Phoenix Technologies introduced a firmware product called HyperSpace,
| which allows PCs to run a number of applications separate from the operating
| system. What that means is that if you use a PC equipped with HyperSpace, you
| will be able to quick-boot your notebook into a secure Linux environment,
| where you can use Web browsers like FireFox and pre-loaded Web-aware apps
| like Google Earth, Picasa, and the like.
|
| [...]
|
| Also, since HyperSpace is a Linux-based platform, Windows viruses won't
| affect it.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2211507,00.asp
Dell Creating Consumer PCs Complete with Virtualization
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| And in a similar fashion to what Parallels and VMware Fusion did for the
| Intel-based Mac community, this could give the Linux operating system a boost
| from consumers who want to use the open source software but don't want to
| lose out on what Microsoft's Windows platforms offer.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2007/08/dell_creating_c.html
Dell to stuff hypervisors in flash memory
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| Dell CTO Kevin Kettler today confirmed these plans during a speech here at
| LinuxWorld, saying the company expects to see major performance and
| power-saving improvements by dumping a hypervisor in flash. Customers will
| basically "boot to a virtual machine-ready" state, he said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/dell_hypervisor_flash/
Microsoft flip-flops on Vista virtualization
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| Software like Parallels Desktop for the Mac or Microsoft's own Virtual
| PC for Windows allow multiple operating systems to run simultaneously.
| When it announced licensing rules for Vista last year, Microsoft said
| that only Vista Business and Vista Ultimate could run as guest
| operating systems. The company said virtualization presents inherent
| security risks and that it hoped by limiting which versions of the OS
| could act as virtual machines, only sophisticated users and businesses
| would employ the tactic.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6191787.html
Is need for control behind Microsoft's flip-flop?
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| Meanwhile, Gartner analyst Michael Silver took Microsoft to task
| for its continued restrictions.
|
| "Microsoft's policies...come off as a way to gouge customers," Silver
| said in an e-mail, noting that customers are forced to pay for higher
| priced editions, even though they don't get many of the benefits, like
| the Aero user interface, which often won't work in a virtual machine.
|
| Silver argues that Microsoft is likely leaving money on the table.
| "Allowing use of lower priced (editions) could even be worth more
| money to Microsoft as it would likely increase the number of people
| that would legally run a Microsoft OS in a VM (like on a Mac),"
| Silver wrote. "Eventually they will have no choice but to make their
| peace with virtualization."
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9733433-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
SplashTop Running On Prototype ASUS Notebook
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| This next version of DeviceVM's SplashTop ships with Corel's LinDVD, in order
| to provide legal DVD playback capabilities. We had briefly watched a DVD
| inside SplashTop and it had indeed worked, all without ever touching the hard
| drive / primary operating system. In addition, SplashTop has provided their
| own music player with support for MP3 files.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=965&num=1
CES 2008: DeviceVM's Splashtop
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| We caught up with DeviceVM at CES to see what's new with their Splashtop
| embedded Linux environment, which we first saw on the ASUS P5E3 Deluxe
| motherboard. As we found out, development has been steady with many new
| features implemented and ready for deployment with notebooks.
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http://techgage.com/article/ces_2008_devicevms_splashtop
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
ASUS add WiFi-N, quick-boot Linux to P5E3 motherboard
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| hat last part is perhaps the most interesting; ASUS are calling it Express
| Gate, but it’s basically a fast-boot alternative that, in just five seconds,
| bypasses Windows and gives you a web-browser running in a custom Linux OS.
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http://www.slashgear.com/asus-add-wifi-n-quick-boot-linux-to-p5e3-motherboard-267643.php
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