Re: [Sheflug] Asus - Express Gate is here

[Robin Wood <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 10:50 +0100, Benjamin Webb wrote:
> > 2008/7/28 Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> Looks like Asus have finally revealed their plans for a Linux based PC
> >> motherboard.  This is after their runaway success with the EeePC with
> >> its Linux desktop  ........
> 
> The one thing that worries me about these motherboards is the fact
> that, although it is a mainly free operating system, they have quite a
> lot of propreitary software installed. Would it be possible to flash
> the motherboard with a more free system, if we wanted?
> 

I'd like to know if you could access the linux stuff from your main OS,
i.e. boot windows then fire up the linux stuff. You'd have a PC in a PC.
And if there were vulnerabilities in the embedded code could you get
linux exploits that targeted windows machines?


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