> Lemote Yeelong does have free BIOS and works perfectly with free > software. I think there are some issues with the battery life, but not > entirely sure if it has been ironed out by now.
"Perfectly" assumes using a patched graphics driver not included in gNS nor Parabola. Battery works for 2 hours. > I wonder how well one can use the Lemote for programming. Aren't there > some difficulties with compiling code for x86 CPUs? I used it to improve an useful Python program and to write small homework programs in C, Haskell and Java. Except for bad Java performance and no GHC interactive interpreter, it worked well. For building and fixing distro packages, compiling WebKit GTK in Parabola with debug symbols needed special linker options to fit in 2 GiB of virtual memory. (Whole build, separate for GTK 2 and GTK 3, took 26 hours.) I never tried crosscompiling code for x86 CPUs, since I never need it when not having access to a fast machine to run it on. (Mono doesn't work on MIPS, but it's probably not an important problem here.)
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