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Are there interest into

Are there interest into Debian mips ? -- http://rzr.online.fr/q/mips

Sure. I'm from Russia, but no

Sure. I'm from Russia, but no such thing on my profile to fill in. SO i left US as a default. Is this a mistake or a policy?

Hello Peter, we'll update the

Hello Peter, we'll update the country list ASAP. No worries. And there are no restrictions at all, anyone is welcome.

Hi all, I was wondering

Hi all,

I was wondering about the emulation capacities of the couple Gdium+Mandriva.
Is there existing port of UAE or ScummVM, or a project to do so ?

By the way, does the Gdium MIPS processor has x86 emulation capacities ?
If yes, is there a port of Wine on this Mandriva ?
(wich might be quite unusual for a MIPS distribution ;-)

No x86 capabilities on the

No x86 capabilities on the Loongson 2F. ICT, the department in charge of designing the chip has it on its roadmap but I'm not sure when this will be available nor how it will perform (compatibility and performance).

If you started from scratch,

If you started from scratch, you could develop a basic library for handling text and adding images and then arrange that additional facilities were added slowly as needed and learned by the user.

Instead of encountering hundreds if new commands and having basic functions work slightly differently in every new application, you could just activate half a dozen or so new commands as needed and learned. Everything else would be just as it was before, so you never have to endure that weeks long period of being desperately confused just to be able to adjust one or two aspects of some photos.

This is what Raskin was promoting in "The Humane Interface". It would be a radical change for developers so that users would have an easy time of adding additional capabilities to their tool set ever after. There are, we hope, more users than developers, so globally it would be a big big win.

He also discussed a zoom world hospital information system that utter novices learned in less than a single minute of training. I think that worked so well because our ancestors for tens of millions of years made it back to the nest. We have geographic navigation talents built into our DNA. We don't forget where the fridge and the couch reside in our homes.

Naturally, I try to improve on that system by making the zooming automatic. See JustGo on my website. Then, perhaps, we can discuss minimal ways to select objects and apply commands to them. Pie menus come to mind as quick to learn and easy to use.

If you want the collaboration

If you want the collaboration twixt staff and hackers to be easy and deep, I'd suggest putting the source code and documentation into a wiki, with at least two pages for each routine in the software. Then the hackers can propose changes and ask questions in the appropriate contexts.

Hey, do you think you make

Hey, do you think you make perfect pages? If not, then where is your damn FEEDBACK button. I say every page should have one and it should lead to a mailto: which prefills the subject line with enough to identify the page it came from. If you had that I could tell you about the top item on Pages that uses loose where it means lose.

Of course if this were a wiki, I could fix it myself. Why is it so awkward instead?

Later on Pages, "Creative

Later on Pages, "Creative Comment" appears rather than "Creative Commons".

Did nobody read this before you put it up? Come on folks.

I offer you a nitpicking review of documents you are about to publish, at least until I get tired of the task.

Thanks Richard for going

Thanks Richard for going through the docs and spotting the errors. It's corrected. We'll certainly take on your suggestion of a feedback mechanism. Meanwhile we'll activate comments on pages.

how can we apply ?

how can we apply ?

oups... sorry... I've found

oups... sorry... I've found the answer : here! http://www.gdium.com/en/node/514 tks ;-)

I've started hacking away at

I've started hacking away at my Gdium Liberty 1000 unit (you can find some of the details on the blog I'm running through gdium.com). I've started to post some Debian packages necessary for running Debian on the Gdium.

I'm having a hard time finding patchsets/kernel source packages for the Gdium -- perhaps I've missed something, but even in Drak I can't seem to find a kernel package for the -gdium kernel shipped with the unit. Any ideas as to when those might be released? As well, any chance the xorg siliconmotion driver sources will be released? The xorg upstream driver (1.7.0) works, but I found the binary version shipped with the Gdium was superior (i.e. fewer issues with xvideo, graphics performance was generally better, qualitatively).

Dear Philippe, please hang

Dear Philippe, please hang out on #gdium on irc.freenode.net and we'll help you finding the needed sources. We already have debian ported to the machine (with LXDE) and can definitely help you out.

http://kubuntu.3322.org/linux

http://kubuntu.3322.org/linux-image-2.6.24.5_2.6.24.5-2_mipsel.deb

Re: "If you started from

Re: "If you started from scratch", IMHO not such a good idea with a netbook aimed primarly at 1st world markets, where the kids have probably already used computers that use the traditional desktop metahphors. OLPC XO / Sugar of course do some of what you describe, and I can testify that they are a major pain in the ass to use if you are have ever used a computer before (on the other hand, 3rd world children who have never used computers before seem to like it). However at least one Sugar Labs person was a OLPH recipient, and Sugar is all Python, so most likely there will be Sugar RPMs for the gdium soon, and I'd guess just running it from version control checkout wouldn't be terribly hard.

Yes, one of the OLPH

Yes, one of the OLPH applicant's objective is to port Sugar on the Gdium. Let's wish him good luck and see how it goes.

Great work, keep it up. I

Great work, keep it up. I love returning back to this site and reading the quality content you always have on offer.