1. Building a MIPS netbook with educational content

3. Loongson

4. Why MIPS & Loongson

5. R&D

6. Principles

7. Software

8. Chinese school solution

9. Business benefits

10. Wrap up

12. Design started in 1981

13. R educed I nstruction S et C omputing pioneer

14. Basic concept: increase performance through the use of deep instruction pipelines (successive instructions can overlap in execution)

15. Early '90s MIPS started to license their design

16. First 2 releases of Windows NT available for MIPS

17. Through the '90s embedded market adoption and supercomputing

18. Loongson marks the return to the desktop

20. Developed at the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

21. Chief architect is Professor Weiwu Hu

22. Produced by ST Microelectronics

24. Up to 1 GHz

25. Little-endian MIPS III-compatible ISA

27. Rev. 2G bring 30% speed increment and x86 hardware emulation

29. Low power consumption

30. Bring competition to 2 monopolistic companies

31. Endorses Open Source

32. In line with our principles

34. Casing design by a Chinese company in Shanghai

35. Board design by Lemote

36. SMT, assembly, etc by a Taiwanese company

37. Operating System by Mandriva

38. UI design and machine specificities by Dexxon/Emtec

39. Online platform specific to markets

40. Content building by teachers and specialists

44. Low consumption machine

46. Applications

47. Content

48. Training

49. Manufacturing

51. Idesk

52. Metacity(GNOME)

53. Lxpanel (LXDE)

54. Metacity (GNOME)

56. Highly reliant on having an Internet

57. Tabbed based UI with G-desklets (widgets...)

58. Content available @ Gdium.com

63. Classroom management

64. Simple admin tasks

67. Self-service kiosks

68. Provide books and content on the removable USB disk

69. Software is free and shareable

70. Content is free and shareable

71. Any project all the money goes to the hardware

72. Donated machines don't get reinstalled

74. Licensing biz is dying, focus on (customer) service

77. Good example of usage of FOSS in business

79. Status of Open Source in Education in Vietnam

80. Any specific Vietnamese Educational application?

82. Thank you