[kwlug-disc] Flossy netbook survey

[Kyle Farwell]

Unfortunately the Yeeloong is no longer in production. Tekmote had them
for $340-$430 up until December 2014 sometime but now the only place I
know of with stock is Freedom Included, which is reserving its last $530
units for MIPS developers.
<http://www.tekmote.nl/en_GB>
<http://www.freedomincluded.com/>

Lemote has some other computers, but they have some non-free parts. The
Loongson 3A laptop (in stock at Tekmote) and Fuloong Mini at least need
proprietary VGA BIOS for graphics.

There should be new Lemote computers with the Loongson 3B chip soon, so
maybe there will be something similar to the Yeeloong.


Kyle Farwell

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 06:26:49PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> The most important spec is missing... price!
> -- 
> William
> 
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 04:53:11PM -0500, Kyle Farwell wrote:
> > I'm doing a summative project for a high school marketing class and need
> > to survey 20 people in the market for a flossy GNU/Linux netbook. If you
> > have a couple minutes to fill out a 12 question survey I'd really
> > appreciate your response.
> > 
> > The survey can be found at <http://kotori.me/surveys/index.php/984562>.
> > The JavaScript and backend are licensed under the GPLv2, and the survey
> > text is licensed under CC0.
> > <https://www.limesurvey.org/en/about-limesurvey/license>
> > 
> > If anyone is interested, the netbook in question is the Lemote Yeeloong.
> > It's a small MIPS-based machine with a free BIOS, used by RMS up until
> > recently.
> > <http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.html>
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Kyle Farwell
> > 
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