HP QuickWeb, Singular and Pointless
HP QuickWeb is an instant-on Linux distribution that HP sold across various laptop models for several years. After acquiring Phoenix Hyperspace in 2009, HP eventually replaced QuickWeb with a version based on Hyperspace without any public announcement. The implementation is basic, primarily functioning as a web browser and lacking advanced features.
- ▪HP acquired Phoenix Hyperspace in late 2009 but initially did not utilize it.
- ▪QuickWeb was sold across a wide range of HP laptops, including netbooks and business machines.
- ▪The QuickWeb implementation is a basic fast-boot Linux that dual-boots with Windows.
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When researching Phoenix Hyperspace for my highly upsetting article on the subject, it was hard to avoid news articles proclaiming that it had been sold off by Phoenix (when they gave up wholesale on their idea of making anything other than BIOSes) and bought up by HP. However, that's where the trail ended; attempts to find out what, if anything, HP had done with it proved fruitless. That is, until two days ago. In Summary When researching an only tangentially related subject (the Dell Latitude Z600, which runs a completely different instant-on linux) I stumbled across a mention of HP QuickWeb, described as another fast-booting Linux distro.
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