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:
From wiktionary: caucus (plural caucuses)
- (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.
- (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
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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)
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
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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
