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What Took Wired So Loongson?
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| I've been writing about the Loongson chip for
| three years now. As I've noted several times,
| this chip is important because (a) it's a home-
| grown Chinese chip (albeit based on one from
| MIPS) and (b) Windows doesn't run on it, but
| GNU/Linux does.
|
| [...]
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| Because GNU/Linux distros have already been
| ported to the Loongson chip, neither Java nor
| OpenOffice.org needs "adapting" so much as
| recompiling - hardly a challenging task. As for
| "releasing it all under a free software
| license", they had no choice.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-took-wired-so-loongson.html
What To Expect in 2010
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| The coming year should be a good one for free
| software. Desktop environments are maturing,
| technology is improving. A lot of the ground
| work done in many areas over the past twelve
| months should propel free software further.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7657/1.html
Recent:
Entering dragon landâthe Loongson laptop
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| Hu Weiwu began to develop the Loongson in 2002 at the Chinese Academy of
| Sciences. Well, actually at the Institute of Computing Technology, but those
| are kind of attached. The first generation chip, a 32-bit
| almost-MIPS-compatible, was put into a handful of computers for rural
| children in Sichuan in 2006: the Sinomanic Tianhua GX series. These systems
| were similar to a Commodore64 and were basically keyboards that plugged into
| a TV and ran a bare bones Linux OS.
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http://cinnamonpirate.com/2009/01/entering-dragon-landthe-loongson-laptop/
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