It should be improved to list the matching package names. My lemote yeeloong netbook autographed by richard stallman lemote yeeloong my preferred portable computing device is freedom includeds lemote yeeloong netbook, running completely free as in freedom software, from the bios up. It ships with two linux distributions, debian gnu linux and rays linux, but any. Debian gnuhurd in a discussion with the debian hurd porters it was decided that the hurd port stays on ftpmaster until wheezy is released. Debian details of package grubyeeloongbin in stretch. This describes how to install debian squeeze on the lemote yeeloong using debian components as much as possible. The lemote yeeloong mini laptop is just one of a range of lemote computers equipped with the energyefficient loongson2 cpu. Based in beijing, blx focuses on designing the 64bit loongson generalpurpose and embedded processors, together with developing software tools and reference platforms. The lemotes netbooks come with an unspecified gnulinux distribution preloaded, which can be replaced by any other gnulinux distro. For lemote yeeloong mipsel notebooks, see our repository. Debian package download selection troubleshooting examine the kernel. The project aims for a fully free software system without proprietary software or firmware and uses a version of ubuntus modified kernel, with the nonfree code binary blobs removed.
Blx ic design corporation was founded in 2002 by ict and jiangsu zhongyi group. Loongson is the result of a publicprivate partnership. Debian broadcom tg3 driver if they could explain what they actually intended to do, we could probably convince them to actually do it, whatever it is. The lemote yeeloong mini laptop is just one of a range of lemote. It ships with two linux distributions, debian gnulinux and rays linux, but any. Debian stretch and later versions of debian will not support mips isa level used on loongson2f based lemote yeeloongs. Lemote yeeloong gentoo desktop the lemote yeeloong gentoo desktop aim to provide a ready to install xfce4 base desktop to the yeeloong netbook.
We will patch the debian xorgserver package and use a custom nf to get x. Unter dem namen lemote yeeloong gentoo desktop sind. Gnewsense is also to supporting three architectures. Module name module description firmware file acenic. Some time ago, i purchased a lemote yeeloong 8089b from tekmote electronics.
I am very new to linux and do not know how to build software packages, and was wondering for best to install synaptic so i can more easily install software in the future. Enter the first noni386, debian gnulinux mini laptop and the first mini. Linux desktop experience with arm and mips open source. All that will be required is the microcode, which you might find. Installing this package indicates that this version of grub should be the active boot loader. All of the software that runs on it even the bios the software that runs before your operating system loads is open for anyone who would like to improve or replace it. The current issues are with the installer, the kernel and x. It is celebrated as sporting only hardware that respects your freedom, that is, hardware that will run purely with open source software at. It is very similar to fedora, one of the most popular gnulinux distribution among advanced users specially server administrators. Once the network is configured, debianinstaller can fetch firmware from debian repositories. Saladien saladien wrote on found on very few linud motheboards. The lemote yeeloong is a lightweight laptop netbook with a 64bit loongson 2f mipscompatible processor. This is a dependency package for a version of grub that has been built for use with the lemote yeeloong laptop. Download latest centos, boot from usb stick or some other way.
Anything about the chinese mips64el lemote yeeloong netbook is allowed here. The debian yeeloong projects goal is full support for the lemote yeeloong in debian. We will use the gnewsenselinuxlibre kernel for installing and as the installed kernel. Trisquel ships 100% free linux kernels, based on linuxlibre from version 2. I have a lemote yeeloong 8101b, and i happened to stumble upon this post and write this reply while using it. This version of grub is based on a cleaner design than its predecessors, and provides the following new features. It describes attempts to install the debian wheezy release on a sunfire. This package contains a version of grub that has been built for use with the lemote yeeloong laptop. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. If the redhat driver will work how do i setup the alias and kernal debiaj ubuntu. See the todo page about what has been achieved so far and where we are heading. Installing the linuxlibre kernel in debian rms homepage. In these situations, drop to the console and manually mount see mount 8 your removable storage on a temporary directory e. Compared with the gnewsense binaries, they add a number of modules, and display freedo as the boottime logo.
If not already performed, connect the device to your system. Ive mostly been using debian on it, but i now switched to openbsd, because debian is dropping mipsel support. I own a lemote yeeloong which is sold with 1gb of ram, which is fine for normal use. Its not exactly a powerful device, even for a netbook extremely weak graphics chipset, a singlecore loongson 2f cpu clocked at a maximum of 797mhz despite the descriptions claim of 900mhz, and a battery rated to last barely 2 hours. Torrents for the live dvd images are available, as well as direct downloads and netboot images. Its based on a solid debian, modified to respect the free software foundations and is available for three architectures. I like economical models, yeeloong 8101b, fuloong 2e and fuloong 2f. Tekmote electronics yeeloong distributor in the netherlands. I mostly stay in the terminal on it, so i have it all customized for that. Download links are available from the mailing list announcement. I am still unable to get the card recognized by ubuntu. Debian at yeeloong mips you can find a number of alternative solutions, which, like arm, can be quite energy efficient, and suitable for the mobile sector.
In september 2011, lemote announced the yeeloong83. Lemote has announced a new model, the yeeloong 83 loongson 3a notebook. An easy benchmark would be to download a vanilla kernel and then time the compiling. Grand unified bootloader, version 2 yeeloong version grub is a portable, powerful bootloader. I purchased it from, who have configured the os setup.
But since i do regularly compile stuff having a bit more ram for caching would be very nice. Gnewsense has been based upon a stripped down version of ubuntu linux, but now with version 3. The reason for that is the fact that some of the very useful changes for yeeloong currently live in the linuxloongsoncommunity fork, and are not integrated in the vanilla kernel from linus torvalds due to that, i suggest to use the prebuilt kernel packages made by. The lemote yeeloong is the most free software open source friendly portable computer ever produced. It will not automatically install grub as the active boot loader, nor will it automatically update g on upgrade, so most people should install grub yeeloong instead. Trisquel full name trisquel gnulinux is a computer operating system, a linux distribution, derived from another distribution, ubuntu. As most of you have already noticed i have a yeeloong netbook and i read that its actually possible to install debian squeeze on it, even though squeeze officially doesnt support the yeeloong or the loongson processor. Venenux gnulinux switched to linuxlibre as of its 0. The debian yeeloong projects goal is full support for the lemote yeeloong in debian see the todo page about what has been achieved so far and where we are heading the lemote yeeloong is a lightweight laptop netbook with a 64bit. Here is a list of linux modules requiring firmware to operate, generated automatically from stretchs linux 4. Would we like to setup br1 on native debian buster 10. The debian repository does not currently provide a fullyfunctional libre kernel for loongsonbased machines. Browser source code, download them via the tags or branch commits. Unable to locate package firmwarelinuxnonfree like like.
Youll find that the look has changed from previous releases, marking the change from ubuntu to debian as a base. Press del repeatedly on startup to enter pmon the yeeloongs. Check the one sentences announcement on the gnewsense homepage and the message from the projects mailing list. The lemote yeeloong netbooks came out a decade ago and based on the mips loongson 2f processor clocked up to 900mhz, offered up to 1gb of ram, some models featuring an 8gb ssd, and driving the display was a silicon motion controller.
Penalver penalvch wrote on but when creating a new wifi connection using network manager, the only mac address it sees is that of my external dlink receiver. One bright example is the yeeloong 8089b netbook from lemote. I recorded the unboxing of my new lemote yeeloong notebook. The lemote yeeloong netbook is based on a 64bit little endian mips processor, named the loongson2f, and is manufactured by. The lemote yeeloong is the first fully free laptop, including the bootloaderthat replaces the bios and the operating system. It is one of the few possibly the only computers that has no proprietary software or firmware, and for this reason is recommended and used by. Now when you open up the yeeloong youll note it has a single ddr2 sodimm slot populated with a 1gb 667mhz adata module.
Wu zhangjin of lemote authored the patches that brought loongson 2f. The yeeloong netbookslaptops were even used by richard stallman for being opensource friendly and he. Gentoo fur offenen laptop lemote yeeloong linuxmagazin. I have currently no eta or exact price, but email me and ill send you the information when it becomes available. Fortunately the install doesnt involve anything too scary. New drivers gigabyte gvr4350c512i drivers for mac download resend,37 linuxfirmware. Lemote yeeloong 8101b the yeeloong netbook computer is intended to be built on free software 4 from the bios upwards, and for this reason is used and recommended by the founder of free software foundation, richard stallman as of september 2008 5 and 23 january 2010. Its based on the new loongson 3a cpu, which integrates four 1 ghz gs464 cpu cores. Stallmans only computer is a lemote yeeloong netbook using the same companys loongson processor which he chose because it can run with 100% free software even at the bios level, stating freedom is my priority. I bought a lemote yeeloong 8089d with cny279 at oct. As a user and contributor to a gnulinux distribution supporting this device, im often asked about it. I recently decided to upgrade from debian squeeze to wheezy. Not only is the lemote yeeloong incompatible with i386.
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