On 2/7/19 5:43 pm, John Long wrote: >> What do you think and do when using OpenBSD on this kind of hardware? > Lemote boxes are kinda neat but they're not the fastest in the world. > It beats the hell out of the alternatives if you can live with the > limitations.
Gentoo was donated two Lemote Fulong 2Es back when I used to maintain their MIPS port. Compared to the other machines we supported at the time (aging SGI boxes and Cobalt Qube), they were a breath of fresh air. Fast enough to actually do useful things on, even play Quake II (with 3D acceleration … for about 10 seconds until X crapped itself). The Loongson netbook was a backward step in terms of graphics hardware though, and a lot of software has problems with MIPS regardless of ABI (I've tried o32, n32 and n64). Shame, because it is a nice enough platform. As for espionage… unless you're going to sit there with sand you've mined yourself, refine it, and make your own semiconductors, there's always going to be an element of risk in terms of espionage from your supply chain. Basically your best bet: don't rely on a single vendor. It's harder for them to hide their espionage then as one vendor won't know how to hide another vendor's dirty deeds. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
