User:Logicthe

A good example and good question asking if hardware specifications are available for the graphics driver in the Lemote Yeeloong: lemote SMI VGA chip - is a datasheet available?

Note: The above mailing list post is a good example of politeness and at the same time asking a question that I've had a long time on my mind, although maybe because I'm not very good at diplomacy and/or politeness I could not ask it yet.

Interesting to know that. More women involved in computer science for a male/female balance in community:

• Womenscaucus/9.19.2009

From wiktionary: caucus (plural caucuses)

1. (US) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting.
2. (Canadian) A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.

(I've stalled. Maybe I've become bored. Maybe it was a too big task for me.) Working on to free this game: Starfighter which resides in the Software blacklist

Buying computer hardware that respects software freedom

I'm thinking of buying a computer which both supports a free BIOS and supports FLOSS 3D accelerated graphics. (careful that all software even in 3D graphics, including the microcode is documented and FLOSS)

• coreboot v1-4 supported motherboards/mainboards

Searching for FLOSS 3D hardware acceleration

Intel GMA. (Intel Motherboard integrated graphics accelerator hardware)

But avoid:

• Intel GMA 500 (No FLOSS and badly documented. Seriously! Avoid it at all costs!)

Motherboard evaluation -- e-shop.gr

• GMA X4500 ---(Wikipedia)---> "G43 chipset" , e-shop.gr --> Click on G43 under 'chipset'

Possibly a future motherboard

• ASUS P5QL-CM (G43. GMA X4500, 70€)
  • DDR2 SDRAM 800Mhz (2GBx2=total 4GB, 85€)
  • Core 2 Quad (4 cores at 2.66Ghz, FSB max, 152€)
  • Hard drive: 250GB, SATA2, 7200rpm (36€)
  • Is this PSU any good? (I was reading about.com's PC Power Supply Buyer's Guide, (PSU))

Not too much bound to the motherboard

• Philips LCD (99€)
• Keyboard (can't I choose the meta key saying "GNU"?, 11€)
• I already have a mouse