No computer is obsolete with a BSD. I still use an n270 netbook daily.
Acer aspire one with NetBSD
Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
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Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
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#13The NetSurf browser the author tried out has multiple frontends. Two run on OpenBSD that I know of, the “default” GTK frontend and an SDL‐based framebuffer frontend. As was pointed out, GTK has a rather sizeable number of dependencies; building the framebuffer frontend instead would save a lot of time.
Mainline Dillo runs faster and smoother, it's just an fltk + git clone && configure +make install away.
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#14I don't think these machines achieved much popularity in China either, as standard PCs were far more common and compatible with the existing software base.
the keyboard and trackpad are internally PS/2.
Interesting that the PC influence is still there, although I'm pretty sure a MIPS doesn't have them on port 60h/64h, or indeed any I/O ports. I remember having a similar moment of surprise when I played around with an ARM VM and discovered it had a "VGA-compatible" GPU emulating an old ISA-class chip.
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#15I don't think these machines achieved much popularity in China either, as standard PCs were far more common and compatible with the existing software base. the keyboard and trackpad are internally PS/2. Interesting that the PC influence is still there, although I'm pretty sure a MIPS doesn't have them on port 60h/64h, or indeed any I/O ports. I remember having a similar moment of surprise when I played around with an…
A decade’s worth of SGI machines combined MIPS processors with PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports.
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#16No computer is obsolete with a BSD. I still use an n270 netbook daily.
Same here. I have a Samsung NC10 netbook with that same CPU which I recently converted from Debian to NetBSD when they dropped 32-bit support.
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#17I don't think these machines achieved much popularity in China either, as standard PCs were far more common and compatible with the existing software base. the keyboard and trackpad are internally PS/2. Interesting that the PC influence is still there, although I'm pretty sure a MIPS doesn't have them on port 60h/64h, or indeed any I/O ports. I remember having a similar moment of surprise when I played around with an…
(author) My understanding is that they're wired into the AMD southbridge which provides them over memory mapped I/O.
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#18It’s tough to find them on eBay; I wonder what the right search terms are?
I think they're super uncommon in the west.
I think they're also super useless, to be honest. Incredibly slow. Linux support continued to degrade the entire time I owned mine. The keyboard and display are far too small to be usable. The graphics chip accelerates basically nothing.
I sold mine [1] on eBay back in October. I hope the new owner enjoys it more than I did :)
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#19"However, I can find no evidence that Richard Stallman had/has a dog, or indeed any pet."
According to his own disclosures, he has a fear of dogs
https://web.archive.org/web/20120119135147if_/https://secure...
Re: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
#20I don't think these machines achieved much popularity in China either, as standard PCs were far more common and compatible with the existing software base. the keyboard and trackpad are internally PS/2. Interesting that the PC influence is still there, although I'm pretty sure a MIPS doesn't have them on port 60h/64h, or indeed any I/O ports. I remember having a similar moment of surprise when I played around with an…
A decade’s worth of SGI machines combined MIPS processors with PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports.
To be fair to that there wasn't really any other viable mass-market interface that the keyboard manufacturers in China/Taiwan could standardize on. The PS/2 keyboard interface was backwards compatible with an AT keyboard through the user of a passive physical pin adapter. And USB didn't exist yet.