ASUS P5E3 Deluxe mobo boots in five seconds with embedded Linux
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted October 8th 2007 9:44AM
posted October 8th 2007 9:44AM
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I love that there are dedicated teams of technicians out there working out ways for the public to access porn even faster.
Brilliant, that is actually extremely useful for when your OS / drivers have issues and you need to get updates / patches etc....
good work ASUS, this is definately on the xmas list.
actually scratch that you can't download and save files with this.
Hopefully they make a newer version that can save and view files on you hard drives, then it'd be useful for trouble shooting
It would be nice if you could save files to a USB Thumb Drive!
This would be nice if it could boot any linux, rather than their own home brew version. If it were open, it could be made to access a local hard disk, which apparently it currently can't. If it supports flash updates, this should be possible in the future.
If you actually read the article you would see that it is not their own "home brew" distro, but a distribution specifically designed for fast bootup (that was created by an independent company)....
RealityCheck: regardless of how tuned it was, if it isn't based on a predominant Linux distro system (eg redhat or debian) then they're reinventing the wheel, and it will forever be on the sidelines for support. There are a variety of distros based on .deb, for example, that would be suitable for this application.
verry nice, and i'm a mac user.
...So?
i think you know.
Stuck up snob who feels the need to constantly verify to the rest of the world how his personal worth is contained within his material possessions?
Yeah, we know.
Exactly.
But seriously, if you really want to know what i meant, basically i was just saying that mac users have a hard time thinking outside of the apple branded hardware box. And I was intrigued by a board that could only be installed inside a non-Mac branded box. That's about it. However, the more I thought about it, I remembered Macs can boot UNIX, so Linux was a possibility. And then I ate a muffin.
I dont like the term 'shebang', reminds me of a horrible night in Thailand...
I don't like the word "shenanigans", it sounds like a family from Alabama.
So? AMD chips kill kittens.
That's ... pretty cool, actually. But where's the AMD version? I don't do Intel.
That's stupid. Why don't you just use what's best? I don't understand people like you. "I only use ATI/NVidia" Why? its not like one kills puppies! just use whatever makes the better product!
actually Intel does kill puppies
Maybe he made a robot using an Intel processor that actually did kill his puppy...
Or maybe hes mad at intel becuase mac uses intel and a mcabook exploded and killed his puppy.
@thethirdmoose: don't be an ass. everyone has the right to choose whatever chip they want to use. whether its best or not is besides the point. ever thought that he may not want to buy a brand new cpu if he already has a decent AMD?
I happen to like AMD. I happen to think their processors are slick, efficient, powerful, and have better price points for comparable processors than Intel. AMD is, to me, the best. If you have a problem with that, bugger yourself. You stay in your camp, I'll stay in mine, and I'll promise not to throw rocks if you do.
"have better price points for comparable processors than Intel."
Not right now. Intel has opened a can of whoop-ass on AMD for the last year and AMD is panicking, throwing things out the door to try and compete. That's what the Black Editions are - panicked attempts to throw out something a little better to compete with Intel. My last two processors were AMD, but when I upgrade this Christmas, it's going to be an Intel. Don't just stick to a company - buy the best part you can get for the money you're willing to spend. Right now, Intel has AMD beat at all price points - low, mid, and high. I'd like to see AMD come back kicking, but that remains to be seen.
I have no problem switching "loyalties" -- such as they are. I started with Intel, then moved to AMD when the Athlon line proved itself superior, and have stuck with it since. If, when I upgrade again (probably the first half of 2008) I'll decide who's got what and at what price points and go from there. For now though I like my dual core AMD and it has worked very well for me for the last year and a half, and at the time it was the best choice for me.
That's cool... but I never turn off my computers... so my boot time is 0
And your carbon footprint is...
Asus is awesome.
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Talk about making your computer easier to hack into. ;)
I can't tell if this flame bait for linux fanboys or you really are clueless
I'd say the latter.
I have no idea about his kind of stuff but I think he was referring to being able to access another os on the machine through the quick booting one.
Isn't that possible?
Stephen Tordoff do you make such dumbass comments all the time? Adding an OS to the BIOS + Web Browser + Plus a VOIP applications sound like really interesting ways of exploiting your machine without having to go into the main OS. If you think Linux is not hackable you and rockintom are dimwits of the century and deserve something similar to the Nobel prize for being Ass holes of 2007. Grab your awards guys, your name is written all over it. I have never read such uneducated comments in my entire life. Read EducateMes comment, its called common sense you uneducated fools.
I don't care if it takes 5 minutes to boot up as long as it's fast and stable once it's up and running. I'll go grab a cup of coffee or a cheeseburger while it's booting.
so if you need to look up something real quick on the web you'll just run over to McD's for a cheeseburger while your Pentium 3 boots? That's cool I guess.
maybe if computers booted in 5 seconds you wouldnt have to leave them on all the time sucking power unecessarily like an assmunch.
I think you're missing the larger picture here. A built-in OS, however minimal, still gives access to a moderately functional system in the event that your primary OS install gets screwed up. Need to get online to ask for help in troubleshooting a problem with your system and don't have a secondary computer or net-enabled PDA/smartphone with which to do so? There you go. Boot straight in, load up Firefox, and you're there. There is also the potential for a kind of built-in Winternals-type diagnostic solution where you can still access your hard drive's file system and maybe fix what's wrong with it. (I don't know that it can do that out of the box, but the potential is there either for future versions of this type of board, or some enterprising hacker to mod the on-board micro-Linux for this purpose, assuming it's stored on flash ROM.)
I've never in 25+ years of using computers ever needed to fire one up just to look up something on the web.
The boot up/down time has never been a factor in whether I shut down my computer or not.
Mindfield, nah I'm not missing the big picture. Having an OS, any OS, other than WinWhatever is always going to be a plus. The boot time just doesn't mean that much to me.
whats a boot.
Where you give the computer a good kicking for not working
The trunk of a british car.
Juaquin,
No no no... a boot is actualy a 'haberdashery', and 'loo' is a type of British tea. ;-)
Regards,
Skon
"you cannot save files, open files from local storage, or anything "advanced" on SplashTop."
All in all, sounds nice, but not really worth this much money. Maybe around 200$ I will get it.
The reason it's expensive is because of the built-in draft-n wireless, that's the majority of the bulk according to bit-tech.
I think it's kind of funny that the two capabilities listed under special features are for two opposite uses (in terms of up-time) for a computer. The express-gate is designed for a computer that is powered-down regularly, while the wireless AP cabability seems most useful for a computer that is continuously running as a gateway for a wireless network. Still, good to see a variety of options, though I think it would be nice to be able to throw your own favorite flavor of Linux on there.
So for $360 I can update my facebook and browse half assed rendered sites? THANKS MAN!!
Too bad it doesn't have the rear lcd panel too. I have the crosshair for AMD and that back panel has helped me a lot.
I have my machine set up for S3 sleep. It takes no more power to sleep than to turn off (I measured with a Kill-A-Watt).
I can wake it and be back in Windows in under 5 seconds.
That just asks to be installed as a Carputer.