Phoenix BIOSOS?

jhfry writes "In an interesting development by an unexpected source, Phoenix Technologies is releasing a Linux-based, virtualization-enabled, BIOS-based OS for computers. They implemented a full Linux distro right on the BIOS chips, and by using integrated virtualization technology, it 'allows PCs and laptops to hot-switch between the main operating system, such as Windows, and the HyperSpace environment.' So, essentially, they are 'trying to create a new market using the ideas of a fast-booting, safe platform that people can work in, but remain outside of Windows.'"

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Re:If it works . . .

[Zero__Kelvin]

Please don't ask sincere questions and pass them off as rhetorical. Learn about Hypervisors, then post. Stop sounding stupid.

Don't Need TPM to know what software is running

[fast turtle]

I administer a large number of workstations, and would love the capacity to know what's running on them,

I administer >10 workstations and know exactly what software is running on them w/o TPM modules and the way I did it is simple. I used the Linux netboot capabilities and remote mounting of /usr /var/home on diskless workstations. The only caveat is to make damn sure that all of them have identical hardware such as motherboards and video cards. You don't need to ensure duplication of CPU's, so long as you use the same series of CPU's or configure you software to use i586 settings. Sure it might be a bit slower and not as optimized as going with cflags="-march=nocona -O3 -pipe" (yes I'm a gentoo user).