Splashtop makes light weight, quick-boot software that you can run alongside Windows or other full-fledged operating systems. The idea is that instead of waiting up to a minute or two for Windows to fully load, you can choose Splashtop at the boot screen and get to a working web browser in as little as 10 or 15 seconds. The Splashtop…

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Earlier this year Canonical announced that it was working on a light-weight version of Ubuntu Linux designed to work as a quick-boot OS option. It’s called Ubuntu Light, and like Splashtop or HyperSpace, the idea is that you can run the OS on the same computer as Windows or another fuller-feature operating system. Then at boot you have the choice…

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Splashtop has been cranking out a light weight operating system for netbooks and larger notebooks for a few years. The idea is that PC makers can customize and load Splashtop software on a computer alongside Windows, giving you a choice of booting into Windows or Splashtop when you hit the power button. The advantage of booting Splashtop is that the…

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It looks like HP is continuing its operating system buying streak. A few months ago the company announced plans to purchase Palm and use the company’s WebOS software on a wide range of devices. And now InfoWorld reports that HP will purchase HyperSpace for about $12 million. HyperSpace is a quick boot operating system developed by Phoenix Technologies. It’s based…

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Like many netbooks, the HP Mini 210 ships with both Windows 7 Starter Edition and a quick-boot operating system. The quick boot option in this case is based on DeviceVM’s Splashtop, but it’s designed to look a lot like the Mi Edition Linux environment that HP designed for the HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition. HP is no longer shipping a…

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The folks behind the quick booting Splashtop environment are introducing a major update this week. Splashtop is basically a light weight Linux environment that loads in about 10 seconds on a machine with an Intel Atom processor, allowing you to load a web browser, make a call with Skype, chat on IM, or perform other activities in less time than…

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Samsung is the latest PC maker to jump on the quick start bandwagon. The company has partnered with Phoenix to load HyperSpace on all of Samsung’s upcoming mobile PCs including netbooks. HyperSpace is basically a low profile Linux distribution that hangs out on a small hard drive partition, allowing you to choose between HyperSpace or Windows when you boot your…

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[/caption] Linpus was one of the first companies to jump onto the netbook bandwagon with a custom version of Linux designed to play well with low resolution displays and slow processors. Pretty much every Acer netbook that has shipped with Linux preloaded to date has come with Linpus Linux Lite. But now Linpus is working on several new products that…

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[/caption] Phoenix Technologies’ HyperSpace software is a quick-booting software environment that can coexist on a PC with Windows or other full featured operating systems. In other words, you have a choice when you hit the power button of waiting 45 seconds or longer to boot into a full desktop operating system, or you can launch HyperSpace in just a few…

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Over the past few months we’ve seen a lot of action in the “quick boot” operating system space. DeviceVM’s SplashTop and Phoenix’s HyperSpace have been leading the pack, at least in terms of publicity. But now there’s a new player: Linpus Linux Lite. Linpus makes the Linux operating system currently used on non-Windows versions of the Acer Aspire One netbook….

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