Making changes in Thinux | Thinvent Technologies
Summary
Processors manufactured by Intel and AMD are usually pretty good at self preservation – they throttle their speeds and turn off some cores when they are close to overheating. The uboot bootloader used with ARM systems does not stay in memory once it transfers control to Linux, and thus does not work in the background to protect hardware components from thermal or other damage. Which is why, when customers contact us to disable or replace Thinux on our ARM based products, we must inform them that this would void their hardware warranty. This policy is in line with what Android based mobile phone manufacturers have in place, when you contact them to unlock bootloaders. We are also able to prevent the user’s computers from getting dysfunctional because an apt or dpkg upgrade was interrupted in the middle – our update system is able to gracefully handle abrupt poweroffs.