Linux to be embedded in Asus motherboards, offering 3-second startup. - comp.os.linux.setup

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More options May 16, 10:25 pm

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From: Joe <useful_in...@yahoo.com>

Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 19:25:57 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Fri, May 16 2008 10:25 pm

Subject: Re: Linux to be embedded in Asus motherboards, offering 3-second startup.

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On May 16, 7:18 pm, Leonard The Committed <leothec...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sounds like a great plan, lets hope those of us that want to run our
> choice of distro can stay with Asus. I've been using Asus in my personal
> machines since 97 and they are as stable as a 400lb welfare Mom in line
> for free cheese.

Keep in mind though that even if Asus provided some source
code for the built-in Linux, that doesn't mean the object files in
the motherboard's flash memory correspond. They could
potentially put spyware in there and you don't know that
it's truly safe until you inspect the code and more importantly
compile and install it yourself.

As an example, what if someone at DeviceVM, which makes
the distro, is highly pro-China and decides to prevent
the embedded Firefox from loading to a pro-Tibet website?

What's needed really is for Linux partisans to replicate
what DeviceVM has done.

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