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An anonymous reader writes "The Windows Vista SideShow technology shows some promise. But what about Linux devices that can present snippets of information independent of the main display?

Here's a review of the picoLCD-4x20, a relatively inexpensive USB device ($50) that supports both SideShow on Vista and LCDproc on Linux."

Ubuntu Snippets "Optimize ubuntu boot sequence by profiling it...This one time special boot may take more time than ordinary boot.

But during this boot ubuntu monitors file usage and preloads those files during subsequent boots."