Lemote Yeeloong first bootup by Mark Johnson

This is the first bootup on my new Lemote Yeeloong notebook computer. The OS is gNewSense "metad". I purchased it from freedomincluded.com, who have configured the OS setup.

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Science & Technology

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• lemote
• yeeloong
• mips
• mipsel
• gnewsense
• freedomincluded
• loongson
• linux
• laptops
• china
• chinese
• netbook
• notebook
• mini
• godson

[mnjk256]

I'm running gnewsense "metad" with gcc/g++ 4.3.2, GNU gdb 6.8-debian, GNU emacs 23.1.1. I decided not to upgrade from "metad" to the next version. This version is based on debian lenny. I believe the upgrade is based on squeeze and has a more resource-hungry version of gnome.

[mnjk256]

About 2:05 to get to a login menu. (It hangs for :20 at the grub boot menu) Still 3:00 to fully boot.

[ElectronikHeartWT]

@mnjk256 I don't know if it is grub's fault but I know that grub is not meant for the Yeeloong. In fact the traditionnal Debian distro on the original Yeeloong by lemote don't use it at all ! It goes from pmon (the bios) to the kernel without any bootloader, like the arm platfrom in fact but with an opensource bios.

[mnjk256]

@ElectronikHeartWT I like grub very much, except that it's slow in this case. I don't actually like to spend my time on low-level languages and operating systems. It's not my favorite thing. This computer has just worked for me, right out of the box. I haven't spent any time messing around with the hardware.

[mnjk256]

Not much different I expect. I'll test it later today and post it.

[mnjk256]

You're probably right, but this machine is running a standard linux OS. Are there some quality netbooks with ARM cpu now? There weren't any when I purchased this machine.

[ninenine78]

The gnewsense has a full GNU toolchain? Or at least gcc/g++, binutils, and gdb? What about emacs or zile?

[TryStarFr]

@angelruiz21 HaHa , implying Ubuntu IS free software...

[TeDiouS1001]

@mnjk256 As of now, what is the boot time?

[Jogurt4action]

@angelruiz21 I like backtrack but unbut is not my style.... And i hate apple BTW and i konw that this is fake.......... So yes this is true...

[angelruiz21]

@Jogurt4action Fuck apple and job's fake,they are a fucking thiefs that stolen the UNIX arquitecture computer and make money with this,however,GNU/LINUX is the real unix in arquitecture and philosophy.Close your mouth because Apple is a fucking fake and gnu/linux is the real,¡Long live the free software¡.By a Ubuntu 10.10 user