SplashTop Linux, the tiny little distro found on new ASUS boards and used for their Express Gate instant on has been hacked.  At Phoronix they have seen in set up on a USB disk to start non-ASUS boards, running custom applications and starting it as a virtual machine.  SplashTop has been talking about releasing an SDK for those interested in working with their kernel, but it looks like they are a little late to the game.

“Last October we were the first to deliver a full-review of DeviceVM’s SplashTop which was an instant-on embedded Linux distribution at the time found on a lone ASUS motherboard. Since then there has been a commitment to SplashTop on all ASUS motherboards and even on ASUS notebooks. While ASUS has been the primary partner with DeviceVM up to this point, other manufacturers are exploring this market. One of our few gripes about SplashTop is that it’s limited in the current applications available and doesn’t allow for much tweaking with no terminal access. However, members of the Phoronix Forums have hacked SplashTop. They have been able to run SplashTop from a USB stick on non-ASUS motherboards, boot SplashTop within a virtual machine, run custom applications, and launch a terminal within this proprietary Linux environment.”

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