And I bet he is still waiting to find a laptop that his free and open to replace...

lunarscape · on Feb 4, 2012

He won't have to wait long. Yeeloong have a quad-core Loongson-3A 13.3" laptop on the way.

Natsu · on Feb 4, 2012

He could also get one of these:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/spark-the-first-free-s...

lunarscape · on Feb 5, 2012

The device (ZT-180) is already out there and runs Android. Good luck to the devs trying to get kernel source from Zenithink though, not to mind hardware drivers. They've already said they've run into problems. The vast majority of Chinese tablet manufacturers do not honour the GPL and it's already killed one Linux tablet project, CordiaTab. In that case the Chinese company actually tried to extort money from the developers.

reirob · on Feb 5, 2012

Can you please provide a URL with more information about the quad-core Loongson-3A 13.3" laptop?

lunarscape · on Feb 5, 2012

Chinese: http://www.lemote.com/products/computer/yilong/312.html

Translated: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&...

reirob · on Feb 6, 2012

Many thanks for the link! I am curious to see some reviews when this device will come in production. Depending on the price it might be a good solution for my kids.

BrainInAJar · on Feb 4, 2012

I'm surprised he even compromises on the CPU instead of using OpenSPARC or something

bwarp · on Feb 4, 2012

OpenSPARC is not open believe it or not. You still need a license to fab it or use it.

I went through this a while ago with someone who likes SPARC and wanted an implementation on FPGA.

Ended up with a licensed MIPS core because it was significantly cheaper on cells in the FPGA.