Hi all,
Its a good thing to do. But i will be even happier, if we are able to make
such a project in India itself, rather than importing Chinese technology. What
our country is falling largely behind is lack of R & D. Even after having such
a huge programmer population in IT Firms, the contribution of India to FOSS is
very very small !!!... I believe we need to initialize a program that
encourages students at various colleges to develop "Indigenous computer
hardware", with "Libre architecture" . This will be the biggest contribution we
could make to the world. I strongly believe our country has the capacity to do
it....and there are brilliant youngsters who can do it. But unfortunately, our
universities are not encouraging it; except the IITs and some other ones.
Actually its R&D that keeps IIT at the top of the list all the time...
Warm Regards,
S.Sreekanth
--- On Sat, 25/9/10, Anivar Aravind <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Anivar Aravind <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Libre
> To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software"
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Saturday, 25 September, 2010, 12:23 PM
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:13 PM,
> sreekanth sasikanth
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> Some of us are working on a plan to make Yeeloong available
> in India
> by Next Year, (after stabilizing the software stack)
> We are working very closely with Lemote and gNewSenseMIPS
> and Debian
> MIPSel Teams to make it happen . Hope you can here the news
> soon.
> Import duty on Chinese goods (30%) will by the major hurdle
> to pass to
> get it in a cost effective way .
>
> Anivar
>
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