LinuxDevices content returns to the Web

LinuxGizmos ^ | Dec 23, 2013 | Rick Lehrbaum

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One of most widely respected repositories of embedded and mobile Linux news and information has returned to the web as an archive hosted here at LinuxGizmos.com.

QuinStreet acquired LinuxDevices.com in Feb. 2012 through its purchase of a group of websites from publisher Ziff Davis Enterprise. After the acquisition, LinuxDevices remained frozen in time for about a year before vanishing in May, shortly after I launched LinuxGizmos.com. Following a constructive discussion about possibilities for bringing the LinuxDevices content back online, QuinStreet generously offered to license LinuxGizmos to host the LinuxDevices Archive on our site, as a “holiday present to the Linux community.”

The LinuxDevices Archive is searchable and also available from a calendar interface, so you can click on any month of any year between 1999 and 2012 and see what pops up. Although some stories did not survive the various transitions between content management systems, the Archive includes over 14,000 LinuxDevices posts, most with images intact, including news, product showcases, and special articles and editorials. So far, just about everything we’ve searched for has emerged in good shape.

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Article is too long to post in its entirety. The website is light on graphics and details more about this, and only a few minor adverts that Ghostery easily dealt with.

As someone who for many years designed with embedded devices, with Assembly Language coming in particularly handy in this regard, getting linux to run on tiny amounts of hardware was always quite enjoyable, and I look forward not only to looking up archive information but browsing LinuxGizmos quite a bit more in the future to see what this potential Evil Overlord can create in the future! *Snidely Whiplash laugh* *grin*

[Bobalu]

I’m also an embedded systems guy.

It’s so nice that we have cheap and powerful ARM SoCs that can run Linux today.

I still code in assembler quite a lot... old habits die hard :-)

I like the cheap Raspberry Pi board, a nice ARM SoC with 500mb ram sitting on top is the heart of this 35 dollar beast. The BeagleBoard Black is even better.. but a few $ more.

Now, back to the BGA work station.

[Scrambler Bob]

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