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Longmeng (Chinese for Dragon Dream; （龙梦〕) is a low-cost computer being developed as a joint venture between the Jiangsu Menglan Group and the Chinese Institute of Computing Technology.

History
The Longmeng computer is a joint venture between the Jiangsu Menglan Group and China's Institute of Computing Technology (ICT). The Institute of Computing Technology is participating in the project under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The new computer was announced by Zhang Fuxin, an ICT engineer. According to Zhang Fuxin, the purpose of this project is to provide everyone with a personal computer. The project plans to sell 100,000 low-cost computers in 2006. The Longmeng is intended for low income groups as well as rural area students.

Pricing
The Longmeng is being designed to cost 1,015 Chinese yuan, 100 Euro, 131 United States dollars.

Technology
The reference hardware specifications as of October 28th 2006 are:
 * Custom micro chassis 14 x 17 cm (5.5 x 6.75 in)
 * CPU: Loongson III (Godson) 64 bit CPU
 * CPU clock speed 800-1000 MHz (64KB cache level Godson RISC Instruction Set)
 * 256MB DDR SDRAM
 * 40-60 GB IDE hard disk
 * 10/100M ethernet
 * Four USB ports,
 * Integrated DVD drive
 * Power source:
 * unspecified Micro-ATX power supply

Software
Longmeng ships with Debian Linux on hda1 and Rays Linux on hda4 as its operating systems. But any linux distribution which has a mipsel port can be installed, e.g. Gentoo Linux.

News articles (by date)

 * Herald Tribune courtesy of Bloomberg News: Rural laptop to cost $187, with Linux - March 15, 2006
 * Xinhua: China to produce low-cost computers of its own - March, 3 2006
 * Virtual China on the Lemote Box - January, 7th 2007

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