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Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard
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."
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 lost you about half way through. And I work in IT. So the casual user (The other 99% of users) definitely won't have a clue what you are talking about. I mean I like how Ubuntu can install things from the add/remove panel but what if I want Apache on my installation and they don't offer it? What then? I'm sure the server Distro has it but what of it. I just want to be able to double click the damned thing and install it. And No RPM packages for Apache so that doesn't work.
sure, as long as you are willing to run an un-patched OS and browser. Of course...they could make it patchable....but then they'd need to add more storage space.....so they might use a flash card reader....but that might not be fast enough. Maybe they should switch to a solid state hard drive.
Bologna. I support 40 users locally on windows XP and while most of them are computer retarded they still figure out how to install things they need like flash or the activex control for the title website they use.
And why hasn't a GUI been written to edit the config file so the settings can be edited in a logical way instead of a serial (search through the whole damned config file for one setting) kind of way?
But all the install methods work on Windows where as one may work on one linux distro and not another. This is the problem.