Dec 28: Portable Dragon
'Twas the day before Christmas, when all through our home
Not a computer was completely free, well, except for my phone.
I had just awakened, quite late in the morn'
For I needed not go to work, that place was forlorn,
When down in the hall there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a medium-sized box, that the postman delivered here.
I tore away the wrapping and opened it wide,
And out came my Lemote, with twinkling stars on its side.
Around the beginning of this month it was announced on the gNewSense mailing list that a company in The Netherlands, called Tekmote were taking orders for the Lemote YeeLoong, a.k.a. the laptop that rms uses. This is the first laptop that completely works with free software, including the BIOS, so naturally I was very interested. Further encouraged by the Free Software Foundation's need to have gNewSense ported (because of the MIPS architecture) over to it, I ordered one. There were a few glitches in the process, but I was compensated with a T-shirt. I'm not going to wear it just yet, though, because for all I know the Chinese writing on it could say This idiot doesn't know there's an insult on his T-shirt
. I've played with the machine for a bit now and these are my experiences so far.
