From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4A75003B.8090800@degood.org> References: <3e1162e60907311050p34d7aecfm79f841ab25ced2af@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130907311856o100b2f4btf15d2f522e8f4d2b@mail.gmail.com> <4A75003B.8090800@degood.org> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 23:16:32 -0400 Message-ID: <3aaafc130908012016h1272446ap180303dd84e83eca@mail.gmail.com> From: "J.R. Mauro" To: john@degood.org, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] just an idea (Splashtop like) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 356575c6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:55 PM, John DeGood wrote: > J.R. Mauro wrote: >> Doesn't ASUS burn the Linux distro into a chip, though? Maybe there >> are utilities to flash it with something else. > > I believe new ASUS motherboards typically boot Splashtop from hard disk, > not from flash. Thanks for setting that straight -- my reference was a couple of old articles with wording that Asus was going to put Splashtop on their computers in flash. Obviously the articles I remember are long obsolete.