Splashtop's maker--formerly known as DeviceVM--estimates that its operating system can be successfully installed on the majority of PC notebooks and netbooks that have shipped in the last three years.
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This article is about the operating system. For the desktop sharing software, see. Splashtop OS (previously known as SplashTop) is a discontinued intended to serve as instant-on environment for. The original concept of Splashtop was that it was intended to be integrated on a read-only device and shipped with the hardware, rather than installed by the user. It did not prevent the installation of another for.
It was an instant-on commercial Linux distribution targeting PC motherboard vendors and other device manufacturers. The first OEM partner for the original Splashtop was ASUS, and their first joint product was called. Later, other computer manufacturers also built Splashtop into certain models and re-branded it under different names. The aspects below detailing these events are retained verbatim from past articles, for historical reference. It in about 5 seconds, was thus marketed as '. It uses, and the 2.6.
Support for Splashtop OS has been withdrawn and downloads of Splashtop OS have been disabled on the Splashtop website. Contents. Features Splashtop features a, a based on 2.0 (later updated to Firefox 3.0), a client, a chat client based on, and a stripped-down file manager based on.
It also includes 10. Splashtop OS shipping in HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and other OEMs was based on Mozilla-based web browser.
Google declined to be the search engine as Google did not want to revenue share on search traffic with DeviceVM. Despite Splashtop OS is Linux based, Splashtop closed partnership with Yahoo!
And Microsoft Bing as search engines. After assessing Splashtop OS technology, Google decided to launch its own ChromeOS and Chromebook. The online downloadable version of Splashtop OS (beta) version 0.9.8.1 uses Microsoft Bing as search engine, a Chromium-based web browser with Adobe Flash Player plug-in preinstalled. Existing Windows bookmarks and Wi-Fi settings can be imported from Windows.
Most versions of Asus motherboards no longer come with Splashtop preinstalled, as the manufacturer now limits the inclusion of its built-in Express Gate flash drive to 'Premium' motherboards such as the P6T Deluxe and P7P55D-E Premium. Other Asus motherboards allow installation of the compact OS via a Windows-only based installer on its support CD. Installation from CD requires a Windows partition to store 500 MB of files, which has to be a SATA drive defined as IDE (no support for AHCI). If one doesn't have a Windows-based machine, it is possible to install Splashtop on a USB hard drive, from the sources.
As of June 2010, Splashtop, as supplied for Asus motherboards, had no support for add-on wireless hardware such as PCI cards. Internals Splashtop can work with a 512 MB flash memory embedded on the PC motherboard. The flash memory can be also emulated on the Windows C: drive (see below). A proprietary core engine starts at the boot and loads a specialized Linux distribution called a Virtual Appliance Environment (VAE). While running this VAE, the user can launch Virtual Appliances (VA) or container. Skype is a VA or container, for instance.
The versions such as 1.3.4.3 are installed as VAIO Quick Web Access. The and the resulting files occupy roughly 2×250 MB. The files consist of a hidden splash.idx and two hidden folders splash.sys and splash.000 in the C:-partition, where splash.000 corresponds to splash.sys persist for a emulation of an. The checksums of the various bs- xxxx.sqx and Virtual Appliance va- xxxx.sqx files (including a special configuration) are noted in splash.sys version for a simple integrity check at the Splashtop start. VAIO offer special buttons ASSIST, WEB, or VAIO depending on the model. The power button on these laptops triggers an ordinary process, the WEB button starts Splashtop. If a Windows-version configured for is already running the WEB button only starts the default browser.
The open sources used for major parts of different Splashtop versions can be downloaded. Parts of Splashtop are subject to patents. DeviceVM owns various patents around instant-on techniques, including being the first OS to leverage on-board Flash for enhanced performance, and intelligently cache hardware probing info so next boot will be faster. Many techniques are now incorporated by Microsoft and other modern OS for fast startup. Products using Splashtop.
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