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Splashtop hacked, boots from USB, adding apps possible
William Henning - Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 | 11:02AM (PT)


SplashTop "instant" on Linux for Asus motherboards has been hacked

Have you secretly been wanting a SplashTop BIOS of your own for your motherboard?

Apparently some users of the phoronix forums have been able to extract the Linux filesystem image of SplashTop, add a terminal (and other) programs, and make it installable on standard USB sticks!

I've played with SplashTop on Asus motherboards before, and it is a neat way of allowing simple net access to untrusted users - mind you, Puppy Linux and other small distributions can do the same task.


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