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Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard

Posted by timothy on from the positive-move dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We first heard about Splashtop back in October, when the instant-on Linux desktop was announced. At the time it was a really exciting concept but Asus only rolled out the technology on high-end motherboards. Splashtop just announced that Asus will be expanding the desktop to the P5Q motherboard family and later on to all Asus motherboards. That's embedded Linux shipping over a million motherboards a month! The release also mentioned that the technology will be appearing on notebooks this year as well."

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  1. In other news... by erroneus · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...ACME brick has set up a lucrative partnership with Microsoft. As it turns out, Microsoft brick-shitting production has been increasing over the past few years and their surpluses have been able to yield a sustainable production rate. Microsoft has been unavailable for comment on their deal with ACME brick, but an ACME spokesman has been noted as having quested that Microsoft boost its dietary fiber intake in order to boost the quality of their new product.

  2. Year of the Linux of Desktop by ehaggis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe Duke Nukem Forever will also be included.

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    1. Re:Year of the Linux of Desktop by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Maybe Duke Nukem Forever will also be included."

      "This will not happen until the Linux Kernel has native support for an install mechanism where by I can double click on a single file and have it install a whole program including notifying and automatically installing programs it is dependent upon."
      I don't see why everyone is calling you clueless. You are dead on the money. Duke Nukem Forever and putting things that clearly do not belong in a kernel in the Linux kernel will happen right around the same time. When penguins migrate to Hell for the cooler climate.
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  3. Re:Out of curiosity... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1.17 million

  4. *Fwooosh!* by CFBMoo1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somewhere in Washington state, a chair is launched on a direct trajectory towards Asus's offices. Naturally NORAD is confused at first till they calculate the launch location.

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  5. Re:Out of curiosity... by fwarren · · Score: 5, Funny
    Here let me fix that for you

    I switch to Widnows every month or so.
    But I get fed up.
    Then I promptly switch back to whatever Linux I feel like installing.
    Then I get fed up again.
    And I think 'All the marketing says that Windows is better than Linux! I should try it AGAIN!'...
    then I switch to Windows.
    Until I get fed up...

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  6. Re:Out of curiosity... by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, 1.18 was the 31 days of January, and he is quoting for February.

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  7. Re:Out of curiosity... by neokushan · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's probably no mention of it running windows because of the defining amount of jokes that would be made about your car crashing...

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  8. Re:Out of curiosity... by Hatta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Truly, 2008 is the year of Linux on the Set Top.

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  9. Re:Out of curiosity... by ThePengwin · · Score: 4, Funny

    only 32.4 percent of people know that though