Lemote Loongson 3A Notebook

[Nick]

This seems awfully off-topic, but I'll jump in anyway (sorry).

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 09:56:08AM -0500, Fabián Rodríguez wrote:
> Le 2014-01-07 06:25, Dmitriy Nikandrov a écrit :
> >Guys,
> >
> >what do u think about this laptop? Does anyone use it?
> >
> >
> >product link http://www.tekmote.nl/epages/61504599.sf/en_GB/?ViewObjectPath=%2FShops%2F61504599%2FProducts%2FCFL-008
> >
> 
> Even at half that price, the specs are quite absurd. This reminds of
> this other "hardware for freedom suckers" pricing:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ujqfs/linksys_resurrects_classic_blue_router_with_open/

Presumably it's a 64bit MIPS processor, which is pretty interesting
if you like that sort of thing.

> If only the specs where detailed - I mean, it's aimed at a techical
> audience, why not produce an "Installing on Trisquel" report, and
> provide full lspci / lsusb outputs?

As it comes with Debian pre-installed, and uses free bios as a
selling point, it's presumably fair to assume it should work fine
with Trisequel.

The price is a bit steep, but it is slightly unique amongst
competitors, and given that it looks like a bigger and slightly more
powerful version of the Yeeloong netbook that appeared to be
moderately popular in the free software community you'd probably do
alright at getting support from knowledgable people.