Lemote

In June 2006, shortly after Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed Loongson 2E they need a company to build end product, so the Jiangsu Menglan Group began a joint venture with the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The venture was named Jiangsu Lemote Tech Co., Ltd.

A computer was announced by Fuxin Zhang, an ICT researcher also a Lemote staff, who said the purpose of this project was to "provide everyone with a personal computer".{{Citation |url= http://www.ict.ac.cn/en/ |title= Institute of Computing Technology |place= CN |access-date= 2006-03-23 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060411183438/http://www.ict.ac.cn/en/ |archive-date= 2006-04-11 |url-status= dead }} The device is intended for low income groups and rural area students.

Lemote builds small form factor computers including network computers and netbooks with Loongson Processors.

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The Yeeloong netbook computer is intended to be built on free software{{cite web |url=http://b.mtjm.eu/lemote-yeeloong.html |title=Lemote YeeLoong 8101B with Loongson 2F CPU review |date=3 September 2012 |access-date=22 May 2014 |first=Michał Tomasz |last=Masłowski}} from the BIOS upwards, and for this reason is used and recommended by the founder of Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman as of September 2008{{cite web | publisher = Wordpress | url= http://guiodic.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/richard-stallman-interview/ |title= Richard Stallman talks about GNU's 25th anniversary, Google Chrome, sharing non-free software, preinstalled GNU/Linux on PC, NDA, OLPC XO |last=Iodice |first=Guido |date=17 September 2008 |work=Guiodic Blog}} and 23 January 2010.{{cite web |url=http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/ |type=An Interview with Richard Stallman |publisher=Uses this |date=23 January 2010 |work=The Setup |title=What do people use to get stuff done? |access-date=24 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717175618/http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/ |archive-date=17 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html |title=How I do my computing |first=Richard |last=Stallman |date=2012 |access-date=22 May 2014}}

The specifications are:

Loongson insiders{{Citation | url = http://video.sina.com.cn/v/b/50914026-1831431393.html | year = 2011 | publisher = Sina | place = CN | type = Video | title = Godson and the open source community development forum (Shanghai Station) extend the campus of Shanghai University Loongson 3A Mini-ITX motherboards & laptops introduced, configuration, spy photos}} revealed a new model based on the Loongson 3A quad-core laptop has been developed and was expected to launch in August 2011. With a similar design to the MacBook Pro{{Citation |url=http://www.sigma.me/2011/05/13/loongson-3a-laptop.html |publisher=Sigma |place=ME | date=13 May 2011| title=Loongson 3A Laptop Prototype Photos}} from Apple Inc., it will carry a Linux operating system by default.{{cite web|title=Yeeloong Notebook Specification|url=http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.html|publisher=Lemote Technology|access-date=25 January 2015|date=2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100723154219/http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.html|archive-date=23 July 2010}}

In September 2011, Lemote announced the Yeeloong-8133 13.3" laptop featuring 900 MHz, quad-core Loongson-3A/2GQ CPU.{{cite web|url=http://www.lemote.com/products/computer/yilong/312.html |publisher=Lemote |title=Announced Yeeloong-8133 Laptop |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110915095048/http://www.lemote.com/products/computer/yilong/312.html |archive-date=2011-09-15 }}

• Lynloong, all-in-one desktop computer, combined computer and monitor, without keyboard.
• Myloong, desktop diskless network computer (NC), without monitor or keyboard.
• Fuloong, see below.

Hiloong, SOHO and family storage center.{{citation needed|date=September 2011}}{{clarify|date=September 2011}}

The Fuloong 2 series is a desktop computer that costs CN¥1,015, €100, US$131.{{citation needed|date=September 2011}} It ships with two Linux distributions, Debian and Rays Linux, but any other distribution that has a mipsel port can be installed, e.g. Gentoo Linux.

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| cpu = Loongson III 64-bit CPU

| memory = 256 MiB DDR SDRAM

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The reference hardware specifications as of 28 October 2006 are:

• Dimensions: 18.8 × 14.5 cm
• CPU: Loongson 2E 64-bit, integrated DDR controller, 64 KiB cache level
• Clock speed: 667 MHz
• Southbridge: VIA VT82C686B
• DDR SDRAM: 256 MiB
• Hard disk: IDE 40–60 GB
• Video card: ATI Radeon 7000M (RV100) 16MB PCI
• Network controller: Realtek 8139D, 10/100 Mbit/s
• USB ports: 4
• Power supply: external 12V 4A DC

The Fuloong 2F computer{{cite web |url=http://www.lemote.com/en/products/mini-computer/2010/0310/111.html |title=Fuloong Mini-PC |work=Lemote |publisher=Jiangsu Lemote Tech Co |access-date=28 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100511090308/http://www.lemote.com/en/products/mini-computer/2010/0310/111.html |archive-date=11 May 2010 }} was released on 30 June 2008, priced at CN¥1,800, about €163, $257.

The specifications are:

• Dimensions: 19 × 14.5 × 3.7 cm
• CPU: Loongson 2F, integrated DDR2 controller
• Clock speed: 1 GHz
• Southbridge: AMD CS5536
• DDR2 SDRAM: 512 MB
• Hard disk: IDE 120 GB
• Video card: XGA V2, 32 MB video RAM, with VGA, DVI and S-video ports
• Network controller: Ethernet, Realtek RTL 8110SC, 1000 Mbit/s
• USB ports: 2.0, 4
• Infrared receiver
• Power supply: external 12 V power adapter
• Operating system: Xinhua Hualay Rays 2.0, which is a Linux distribution that supports MIPS architecture. Fuloong 2F also works well with other Linux distributions, OpenBSD,{{cite web |url=http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html |title=OpenBSD-Loongson |date=21 May 2011 |work=OpenBSD |access-date=28 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615032100/http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html |archive-date=15 June 2010 |url-status=dead }} and NetBSD.{{cite web |url=http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbmips | title=NetBSD/evbmips}}

The specifications are:

Lemote has participated in development and MIPS-porting of Debian GNU/Linux, eCos, MicroC/OS-II, VxWorks, Microsoft Windows CE, Java, OpenOffice.org and Yongzhong Office by Wuxi Yongzhong Tech Co. It also develops a Loongson processor simulator based on GXemul. In part to its ability to run only libre software, without proprietary binary blobs, Richard Stallman famously used the Lemote Yeeloong.

• OLPC XO-1, also called the $100 Laptop project
• Classmate PC, a low cost machine developed by Intel
• Sinomanic Tianhua GX-1C, part of a line of affordable machines developed by Sinomanic in China
• Simputer, an earlier project to construct cheap handheld computers in India
• VIA pc-1 Initiative, a project of VIA Technologies to help bridge the digital divide

{{reflist}}

• {{Official website|http://lemote.com/}} (in Chinese, defunct as of January 2019)
• {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151219213225/http://www.lemote.com/en/ |date=December 19, 2015 |title=Old Lemote site in English }}
• {{Citation | url = http://www.ict.ac.cn/ | language = zh | title = Institute of Computing Technology | place = ZH}}.

• {{Citation |url=http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/14/content_4304048.htm |newspaper=Xinhua |title=China to produce low-cost computers of its own |date=3 March 2006 |access-date=6 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070902203332/http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/14/content_4304048.htm |archive-date=2 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}.
• {{Citation |url=http://www.virtual-china.org/2007/01/lemote_loongson.html |newspaper=Virtual China |title=The Lemote Box | date=7 January 2007}}.

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