> I really like the fact that is a fully free system. It isn't yet, it has a nonfree VGA ROM and no free distro supports it yet: both gNS and Parabola work with separate nonlibre kernels. http://www.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS-3A suggests it being possible to use with heavily patched Linux-libre, so it should be as free as Coreboot-using desktop systems in near future (with gNS: Parabola currently has no active developers for 3A).
> What I don't like > is that it still have low-power based hardware (of course, I'd like to > get as much upgrades as I can directly from the vendor), doesn't have > 3D acceleration, as stated here: > > http://h-node.org/notebooks/view/en/1003/Loongson-3A--8133-/1/1/Lemote/undef/undef/undef/undef/undef/undef/undef It also doesn't have the fast software rasterizer of llvmpipe and needs some assembly patching to play videos (Loongson CPUs use custom SIMD extensions).
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