SplashTop / Express Gate Uses Blackbox

Posted by Michael Larabel on October 09, 2007

We've just received confirmation from DeviceVM that the lightweight window manager they use for SplashTop is based upon Blackbox. As we shared earlier today, SplashTop currently uses the Linux 2.6.20 kernel. Once we get any other technical details we will pass them along.
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