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author: Chris Hodapp
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date: 2009-05-02 11:59:57+00:00
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slug: '20090501'
title: 2009.05.01
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categories:
- Scratch
tags:
- Hardware
- local
- software
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## software

  * [Finnix](http://www.finnix.org/), 'Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution ("LiveCD") for system administrators, based on Debian testing"; I came across this while looking at what common distros were out there for PowerPC since I recently acquired an iBook. 
  * [Open64](http://www.open64.net/), the Open Research Compiler, "an open source, optimizing compiler for the Intel IA-64 (Itanium), AMD Opteron and Intel IA-32e architecture" 
  * [GCC UPC](http://www.intrepid.com/upc.html) - extensions to GCC to provide a compilation and execution environment for [Unified Parallel C](http://upc.gwu.edu/)
    * "UPC is an extension of the C programming language designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, including those with a common global address space (SMP and NUMA) and those with distributed memory (eg. clusters)." 

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## local

  * [http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Cincinnati](http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Cincinnati) - Hackerspace wiki for the currently-under-heavy-development Cincinnati Hackerspace 
    * Also [http://cincinnatihackspace.wikispaces.com/](http://cincinnatihackspace.wikispaces.com/)

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## hardware

  * Awesome MIPSy stuff: 
    * Lemote Fulong miniPC ([Linuxdevices story](http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8003782690.html)) - powered by a 666 MHz Loongson 2E 
    * Rather similar to the $150 YellowSheepRiver "Municator" ([Another Linuxdevices story](http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6301677114.html)) based on a 500 MHz 64-bit Godson-2 
    * [Lemote YeeLoong](http://www.lemote.com/english/yeeloong.html), a laptop with completely free software (including BIOS and firmware) and a power usage of about 12W, based on an 800 MHz Loongson 2F; Richard Stallman supposedly uses one of these