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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