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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/loongson-launches-3a6000-cpu-matches-14600k-ipc https://www.tomshardware.com/news/loongson-launches-3a6000-c... they have this
by logicchains 3y ago
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/loongson-launches-3a6000-cpu-matches-14600k-ipc https://www.tomshardware.com/news/loongson-launches-3a6000-c... they have this, which is apparently comparable to an Intel Core i3, which is probably good enough for most government work.
- not_your_vase 3y agoWell, the hardware, yes. But you are expected to compile your own software... Windows doesn't exist on Longsoon (AFAIK), and no notable distro have ready made image, nor package repository for this arch (not in the west at least. Are there such in China?). You can make it work with not a lot of effort of course, but I wonder if this is really what government folks do in their lunch break.
- yorwba 3y agoUOS reportedly supports Loongson as of 2019 https://cntechpost.com/2019/12/16/china-made-operating-system-uos-adapted-to-popular-software-first-step-to-replace-windows/ https://cntechpost.com/2019/12/16/china-made-operating-syste... Though I found this post from last month https://bbs.chinauos.com/phone/zh/post/17586 https://bbs.chinauos.com/phone/zh/post/17586 where someone complains that UOS isn't updating to Loongson ABI2.0 quickly enough.
- xcv123 3y agoThe Chinese government uses Kylin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Kylin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Kylin
- yencabulator 3y agoWikipedia says Loongson is used as the MIPS target of both Debian's and Go's continuous integration systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#Operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#Operating_systems