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 :).. > > > 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 am part of gNEWSenSe MIPS porting team Major Patches are on Kernel (Which is is now part of upsream Linux Kernel), X (also part of upstream now),Complete X server compatible Silicon motion graphics Driver (a team is working on it ) Wireless Driver (There was a need of rewriting of its iee802.11 stack to get it to get it accepted on upstream) and some basic issues with glibc that preventing wvdialing (patch is available), If somebody uses mplayer that also need a patch, but it is not fully fixed yet > > China is an excellent example of what India should be aiming at. I am > not talking about Communism or Politics here and i am not interested in that > topic. What i am talking about is Technological Independence and also the > efficiency of work there. That country is zooming ahead of even the Developed > countries (Who actually developed by exploiting others once...). > it is the 200$ Laptop project of Chinese Govt , and they decided to open specifications , But cost is anyway coming more that that now Anivar _______________________________________________ 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]
