Other Asus motherboards allow installation of the compact OS via a Windows-only based installer on its support CD. 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. Existing Windows bookmarks and Wi-Fi settings can be imported from Windows. 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. After assessing Splashtop OS technology, Google decided to launch its own ChromeOS and Chromebook. Google declined to be the search engine as Google did not want to revenue share on search traffic with DeviceVM.ĭespite Splashtop OS is Linux based, Splashtop closed partnership with Yahoo! and Microsoft Bing as search engines. Splashtop OS shipping in HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and other OEMs was based on Mozilla-based web browser. Splashtop features a graphical user interface, a web browser based on Mozilla Firefox 2.0 (later updated to Firefox 3.0), a Skype VoIP client, a chat client based on Pidgin, and a stripped-down file manager based on PCManFM. then focused on a remote desktop solution. Its popularity quickly declined after announcing an agreement with Microsoft and most vendors who included it eventually started using a version that required a windows installation and later simply dropped it. Support for Splashtop OS has been withdrawn and downloads of Splashtop OS have been disabled on the Splashtop website. It uses Bootsplash, SquashFS, Blackbox, SCIM, and the Linux kernel 2.6. It boots in about 5 seconds, was thus marketed as ' instant-on'. The aspects below detailing these events are retained verbatim from past articles, for historical reference. Later, other computer manufacturers also built Splashtop into certain models and re-branded it under different names. The first OEM partner for the original Splashtop was ASUS, and their first joint product was called Express Gate. It was an instant-on commercial Linux distribution targeting PC motherboard vendors and other device manufacturers. It did not prevent the installation of another operating system for dual booting. 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 is open source software with some closed source components. Splashtop OS (previously known as SplashTop) is a discontinued Linux distribution intended to serve as instant-on environment for personal computers. Open source with some closed source components MeeGo Edition Beta (August 4, 2008 13 years ago ( ))

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