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[News] A Look at Splashtop -- Powered by Linux

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Linux is the Engine Under the Hood of Instant On

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| Splashtop is a product from DeviceVM and was the first to really grab the 
| attention of the laptop crowd. It comes pre-installed on laptops from Asus, 
| Lenovo and VoodooPC. It's also available on a large number of Asus 
| motherboards and the Asus Eee Box B202. For the developer crowd there is a 
| list of the components used in Splashtop on their website along with the 
| statement that they are building an SDK to make development for the platform 
| easier.      
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6637/1/


Related:

Hands-on: HyperSpace by Phoenix joins the instant-on fray

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| Does your laptop take too long to turn on? Linux-based instant-on operating
| systems have turned up on plenty of recent laptops, such as the
| Splashtop-powered Asus N10J, and now Phoenix is jumping into the action with
| its HyperSpace OS, as featured on a handful of new Lenovo laptops including
| the S10 Netbook. We got a chance to get a hands-on preview with HyperSpace.
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http://ces.cnet.com/8301-19167_1-10131760-100.html


Phoenix HyperSpace: An Instant-On Linux Environment?

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| Fifteen months ago we exclusively showed off SplashTop from DeviceVM, which
| was an instant-on Linux environment embedded into ASUS motherboards and since
| then it has worked its way into products from other OEMs (including
| notebooks). DeviceVM continues to work on further refining SplashTop by
| adding in virtualization support and other features, along with a promised
| developer SDK. Phoenix Technologies, the company producing the BIOSes for
| many of the motherboards on the market, is today introducing their SplashTop
| competitor. HyperSpace is the Phoenix Technologies product being unveiled
| this morning with several distinct differences from SplashTop.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=phoenix_hyperspace&num=1


Everyone's free Linux: DeviceVM's Splashtop

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| Splashtop is a mini-desktop Linux distribution that's based on the 2.6.20
| Linux kernel. Currently, Splashtop comes pre-installed on pretty much all
| ASUS motherboards and on netbooks and laptops from ASUS, HP's high-end
| VoodooPC division and Lenovo.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/everyones_free_linux_devicevms_splashtop


A peek at Phoenix's HyperSpace fast-boot Linux add-on

http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT6226385607.html


The Linux Boot Sequence, Visualised

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| Most of us don't appreciate all the processes involved with our OS's boot
| sequence; we're far more interested in watching that status bar fill. In this
| visualization of the Linux boot sequence, each function is a node, and each
| line connecting the nodes represents a call, direct branch, or indirect
| branch.
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http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/11/the_linux_boot_sequence_visualized-2.html


Booting Debian in 14 seconds

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| Many readers will have heard about Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok's work to
| boot an ASUS Eee 901 in 5 seconds. Inspired by this work, and because I have
| the same laptop, I decided to try to reproduce their results. So far I have
| not come very close to their 5 seconds, but I have made some significant
| improvements compared to the default boot time for Debian on that machine;
| this article describes what I've done.
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http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/620


Linux boots in 2.97 seconds

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| Japanese embedded Linux house Lineo has announced a quick-start technology
| that it claims can boot Linux in 2.97 seconds on a low-powered system. The
| technology appears similar to but much faster than Linux's
| existing "suspend-to-disk" capability.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5185504436.html?kc=rss


My Bootchart Record: 12 Seconds to Boot, 7 Seconds to X

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| I may have to write how I did this at some point. I use Archlinux x86_64,
| with a custom kernel from Zen. It's got most of the stuff I need built in,
| and all other crap is thrown out. I further have added concurrency in rc.conf
| using @ before all but a couple of my daemons, and am using ReiserFS, with
| noatime notail nodiratime. I have further speed things along by editing
| rc.sysinit, and removed hundreds of lines of unneeded crap as well. One trick
| I found was that it is actually faster to mount an NTFS partition I have via
| rc.local, rather than fstab. That said, I can't think of anything else to
| make this faster!
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http://www.mattparnell.com/projects/my-bootchart-record-12-seconds-to-boot-7-seconds-to-x.html
http://tinyurl.com/65eexv


Reboot like a racecar with kexec

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| Kexec was originally intended for use by kernel and system developers who had
| to reboot several times a day. Soon, system administrators for
| high-availability servers found use for it as well. As systems get more and
| more advanced, and boot times get longer, end users can now benefit from it.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/150202
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