Your Second Option Operating System

     With all the new Asus motherboards and Asus computers out right now. There is another option out there for your operating system. This operating system is called Express Gate and is built right into the Asus BIOS.
     To get into the OS you will have to do a few things first. After you start the computer you will have to press the F8 button to get into the BIOS. You will then need to go into the Tools option and make sure that the Express Gate option is enabled. You will then need to back out and save your settings. When your system reboots it will bring you into a screen for the Express Gate operating system. You will have a 10 second timer countdown by default so if you do not do anything it will try to boot to your other operating system installed.
     So you maybe asking what does Express Gate give you out of the box? It comes with Skype client, a chat client, on-line games client and a web browser client. It also lets you set up your network and other settings related to your network. An important note when it comes to downloading anything via the web browser or chat you will not be able to. This only relates to things that you would want to keep on your computer. This does not relate to watching videos on-line. The reason for this is because there is no space on your BIOS to save anything. If you know that you will be downloading anything on your computer then you will need a operating system like Ubuntu on a hard drive.
     Now you maybe asking yourself if I can not download anything why would I want to use it. We'll the biggest reason I would think of is time. If you needed to check your e-mail or quickly surf the internet it would only take a few seconds to get on-line. Or if you are a new/novice user and you just want to do some basic things.
     You also maybe asking why I would be bringing this up when I have been talking about Ubuntu on your computer. Express Gate is based on the Linux kernel as with Ubuntu is based on Linux kernel as well. It shows how easy a operating system that is based on Linux can be. Express Gate is not a 100% replacement for a operating system on your hard drive. In fact I would say it would be a really good idea to have both Express Gate and Ubuntu installed.