What PC Richard Stallman, the guru of free software, he uses? A Yeelong home Lemote, a Chinese company. This netbook is quite unique in the sense that he was chosen by Richard Stallman because of a peculiarity: the entire machine, including the BIOS, is totally free and open source, which is not the case of a usual computer.
The machine is not perfectly: this netbook with a screen of 8.9 inches or 10 is not very fast, because it is based on a MIPS platform type Loongson, a Chinese processor. This chip 64-bit MIPS (here a model 2F) is only clocked at 900 MHz and other characteristics of the device are limited.
If the northbridge, which supports DDR2 memory, is integrated into the CPU, the CS5536 is a southbridge from AMD, a chip that is compatible old PATA (not SATA), USB 2.0 (four ports) and manages the audio with AC97 codec. The rest are 1 GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive or SSD 8 GB, a card reader, webcam, Wi-Fi and Ethernet - with Realtek chips - and a screen in 1024 x 600.
If the machine is shipped with Debian, a MIPS version, Richard Stallman uses gNewSense, a fully free distribution. As can be seen to be a guru of free software is not always an easy task, and one is sometimes obliged to work with material input range only to be in tune with his ideas. 
The machine is not perfectly: this netbook with a screen of 8.9 inches or 10 is not very fast, because it is based on a MIPS platform type Loongson, a Chinese processor. This chip 64-bit MIPS (here a model 2F) is only clocked at 900 MHz and other characteristics of the device are limited.
If the northbridge, which supports DDR2 memory, is integrated into the CPU, the CS5536 is a southbridge from AMD, a chip that is compatible old PATA (not SATA), USB 2.0 (four ports) and manages the audio with AC97 codec. The rest are 1 GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive or SSD 8 GB, a card reader, webcam, Wi-Fi and Ethernet - with Realtek chips - and a screen in 1024 x 600.
If the machine is shipped with Debian, a MIPS version, Richard Stallman uses gNewSense, a fully free distribution. As can be seen to be a guru of free software is not always an easy task, and one is sometimes obliged to work with material input range only to be in tune with his ideas.
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