My friend Derrick Sobodash wrote a wonderful post about the Lemote Yeeloong and the Loongson 2F CPU.Il mio caro amico Derrick Sobodash ha scritto un bellissimo post sul Lemote Yeeloong e il processore Loongson 2F.
I have an account on Identi.ca, a micro-blogging service based on theFree Software Laconica tool.
If you register for an account, you can post small (140 chars or less) text notices about yourself, where you are, what you’re doing, or practically anything you want. You can also subscribe to the notices of your friends, or other people you’re interested in, and follow them on the Web or in an RSS feed.
Now the Free Software Foundation opened a lot of groups related to different activities.
Join us in these groups to discuss FSF campaigns and projects:
Ho un account sul servizio di microblogging libero Identi.ca basato sul software libero Laconica.
Se registri un account puoi postare brevi note di testo (140 caratteri o meno) su di te, su dove sei o cosa stai facendo, o praticamente qualsiasi cosa tu desideri. Puoi anche abbonarti alle note dei tuoi amici o di persone che condividono i tuoi interessi e seguirli usando il sito web di identi.ca o gli RSS.
Ora la Free Software Foundation ha aperto un sacco di gruppi differenti relativi alle loro attivita’.
Iscriviti a questi gruppi per discutere campagne e progetti con la FSF:
Are you thinking to buy an iPhone?
Please think again because, as many other Apple products, this one is Defective By Design.
El Patio Maravillas recibe una orden de desalojo para el Jueves 22 de Enero a las 9:30. El viernes 23 se tiene previsto celebrar en el edificio el Foro Social Mundial que ahora se ve amenazado por la orden. El Juzgado no ha atendido al recurso presentado por los miembros del Patio.
La FRAVM, Ecologistas en Acción,CEAR, SODEPAZ, Medicos del Mundo, ACIBU y la Asociación de Vecinos y Vecinas del Barrio de Malasaña y Universidad, apoyadas otras muchas entidades sociales, políticas y culturales, solicitaron hace semanas al ayuntamiento la expropiación del edificio para que el Patio pueda seguir funcionando en el barrio de Malasaña y dando el uso social que lleva dando más de un año y medio.
Los miembros del Patio hacemos un llamamiento público para defender el Patio el Jueves 22 a las 8:30 y para acudir a una manifestación de repulsa y defensa del proyecto el próximo sábado 31 de Enero a las 18h.
Enlace al comunicado integro: El patio no se cierra.
Please take the time so sign this Petition to stop software patents in Europe.
Write about it in your blog, send it via email.
Finally, thanks to a lot of help from Derrick Sobodash, a user of the Beijing GNU/Linux user group I managed to install Debian into the Lemote Yeeloong.
0. Download the debian loongson image: http://bjlx.org.cn/loongson/loongson2_debian5_20090108.tar.bz2
1. Use gparted to format a partition on a USB disk to ext3.
2. Mount it, change to the folder inside the usb /, and run `tar xjpvf /yourpath/loongson2_debian5_20090108.tar.bz2
3. Open /media/YOUR_NEW_EXT3/etc/fstab and comment out all lines except proc.
4. Run `sync`. Be patient. Remove your USB disk.
5. Start the Yeelong. Open terminal. Remount / as rw instead of ro this way: mount -o remount, rw /
6. Edit /boot/boot.cfg. Make sure it has “showmenu 1″. Add these lines.
title Debian on Yeeloong
kernel /dev/fs/ext2@usb0a/boot/vmlinux-yeeloong args console=tty root=/dev/sda1 no_auto_cmd rootdelay=10
7. Power down. Plug in your USB key.
8. Press DEL. At the pmon prompt write: load /dev/fs/ext2@usb0a/boot/vmlinux-yeeloong g console=tty root=/dev/sda1 no_auto_cmd rootdelay=10
Then the system will boot into your new shining debian. 
Derrick Sobodash suggested:
if you get a kernel panic about not being able to mount root (/), check if it is mapping it as sda. The supplied kernel has a quirk where it mounts and unmounts the device creating it as sdb the second time. My new kernel for medan doesn’t have this problem. If you continue to have trouble, I suggest trying a USB hard disk, not a USB stick. I’ve had a lot of bad experiences with sticks flaking out and writing 0s inside of files. A USB hard disk will not have this problem.
Thanks also to all the #beijinglug friends on irc.freenode.net for all your help and support.
If you found this guide helpful, please consider joining the Beijing GNU/Linux user group and help them. They really deserve it.
I just read about this amazing project called Freedom Walk aimed at spreading the message of ‘Freedom in Society’, ‘Freedom from Environmental Issues’, and ‘Freedom in Software’ and to promote activism around these freedoms.
Simply amazing.
I hope this project will be replicated by many people around the world.
The Badvista.org, a Free Software Foundation campaign to alert all users about the danger of the Vista operating system has ended.
Now many (but not all!) users are aware of the fact that Vista, just as XP, is enemy of your freedom and take the control of your computer away from you to give it to Ms.
Now we will put our resources and efforts on new campaigns to keep all of us free from proprietary software slavery.
Your help is always appreciated!
Download and install a fully free GNU/Linux distribution like gNewSense.
Join our community and take back your digital freedom.
