On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:27 AM, sreekanth sasikanth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Siju, > > Well, i am aware that i have a non-free BIOS. And actually, >Mr.Thomas and myself had discussed this matter with RMS himself face to >face, when he came to St.Joseph's college, Pala. > Well, the thing is there are some technical issues (regarding loading >of some hardware activation modules) or something >(i really dint get what he said actually... ) >which makes it very very hard to make Free-BIOS work. > Please let me know if i am wrong in this case... :)... >Any suggestions are welcome :).. > >
No Sree, I was just joking :-) I was aware of http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot http://www.openfirmware.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS etc but never came across any one who run it in their computer. I am not telling there are none but i don't know any even among people who say Debian/BSD is not free because one can use Hardware Vendor's firmware on them >But one thing i came to know is that RMS uses a "Lemote Yeeloong" >net book which can run Free-BIOS also. >It contains the famous Loongson processor, which was developed >completely in China itself. >I had read about this processor once in a techblog.. >And the best thing is... Only GNU/Linux is now capable of running on it, > bcoz the chinese people had customized the kernel to run on it >(Thanks once again for being Free Software). > I hope you are talking about this ;-) http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/loongson/ http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html > > China is an excellent example of what India should be aiming at. > very right! a lot to learn from them :-) I thought of getting a longsoon when I first saw the OpenBSD Port but I needmore processor power :-( cheerrs --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
