SplashTop "Instant-On Linux" Gets Hacked Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 29 July 2008 at 03:17 PM EDT. Page 1 of 2. 18 Comments. Last October we were the first to deliver a full-review of DeviceVM's SplashTop which was an instant-on embedded Linux distribution at the time found on a lone ASUS motherboard. Since then there has been a commitment to SplashTop on all ASUS motherboards and ev