Chris Rowson wrote: > I know many of you probably read Slashdot, but just in case you missed > it, what do you think of this news? Basically, Asus are going to have > a Linux desktop pre-installed onto a chip on every motherboard they > sell. > > http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/14/173220 > > ""We first heard about Splashtop back in October, when the instant-on > Linux desktop was announced. At the time it was a really exciting > concept but Asus only rolled out the technology on high-end > motherboards. Splashtop just announced that Asus will be expanding the > desktop to the P5Q motherboard family and later on to all Asus > motherboards. That's embedded Linux shipping over over a million > motherboards a month! The release also mentioned that the technology > will be appearing on notebooks this year as well." > > Good eh? > > Chris >
That's good news. I heard bits about this when I was looking for an upgrade earlier on this year, unfortanately it didn't cover the mid range boards I was looking at. Still, sounds promising. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
