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Re: [News] ASUS and Others Release Linux Patches for Faster Booting and More

  • Subject: Re: [News] ASUS and Others Release Linux Patches for Faster Booting and More
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:06:16 +0000
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> SplashTop Source Code Released
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | These patches are for Bootsplash, DVM, getting the CMOS time,
> | adjusting the max loop, the sk98lin networking driver, and
> | SquashFS. Presently, the Linux kernel that SplashTop uses is Linux
> | 2.6.20.11.
> `----
> 
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=915&num=1

It just occurred to me that SplashTop would be ideal for implementing
dm-crypt for drive encryption, in lieu of a USB flash drive. I wonder if
Asus have considered that? Now we have access to the source, it should
not be too difficult to implement independently.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
|  make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
|  - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.9-91.fc7
 21:04:23 up 4 days, 17:57,  2 users,  load average: 0.43, 0.58, 0.66

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