Hi Siju,
Thanks a lot for the information actually. I was actually out dated
about this information. Well, i read the wikipedia article on Loongson :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#Loongson-based_systems
And came to know that NetBSD and OpenBSD are also available, together
with the Dreaded Windows CE. I believe you are a BSD user Siju? :). Well, once
again thank you for Updating me on this. I dream of a day when Indian
Institutes will also make such a processor for our country...with completely
Free-Hardware :).. Which i am unsure whether will happen in our life time
:D..he he he
Warm Regards,
S.Sreekanth
--- On Sat, 25/9/10, Siju George <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Siju George <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Libre
> To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software"
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Saturday, 25 September, 2010, 11:48 AM
> 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
>
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