R.I.P. LinuxDevices… Long live LinuxGizmos! [LWN.net]

Rick Lehrbaum, founder of LinuxDevices, has a new site called LinuxGizmos. "Like its forerunner, LinuxGizmos is devoted to the use of Linux in embedded and mobile devices and applications. The site’s goal is to provide daily updates of news and information on embedded Linux distributions, application software, development tools, protocols, standards, and hardware of interest to technical, marketing, and management professionals in the embedded and mobile devices markets."

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R.I.P. LinuxDevices… Long live LinuxGizmos!

Posted Mar 12, 2013 9:35 UTC (Tue) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]

Great. I don't have anything particularly insightful to post about this, but there's been a hole in my daily digest of news since linuxdevices wound down.

R.I.P. LinuxDevices… Long live LinuxGizmos!

Posted Mar 12, 2013 11:24 UTC (Tue) by tonyblackwell (subscriber, #43641) [Link]

There seems to be something wrong with the site. I've tried several times today and no article on the site has downloaded enough to display. Need better gizmo's...

R.I.P. LinuxDevices… Long live LinuxGizmos!

Posted Mar 12, 2013 17:46 UTC (Tue) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143) [Link]

It works fine from here; maybe there is a flaky router between you and the web server.

Good to see a LinuxDevices successor, it was frustrating to have it bought just to be thrown away!

R.I.P. LinuxDevices… Long live LinuxGizmos!

Posted Mar 13, 2013 15:02 UTC (Wed) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link]

Hmmmm...maybe I shoulda not picked up that H77 motherboard after all...maybe desktops are the way of the past now?

I sure hope not, because in my experience, these tablets and smartphones have some of the most immature behavior imaginable - crashes, slowness, crazy licensing systems that don't always work, and etc. and etc.

My favorite one is: no printer drivers for Android. Which means I can't connect my tablet to my deskjet and print something.

Ugh!

R.I.P. LinuxDevices… Long live LinuxGizmos!

Posted Mar 14, 2013 9:36 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Install your favourite GNU/Linux distro in a chroot and run CUPS there?

R.I.P. LinuxDevices… Long live LinuxGizmos!

Posted Mar 14, 2013 13:36 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link]

That would be fine, if I wanted to take the trouble, and if the tablet had enough room and performance for it, and if the tablet hardware was supported....

Truth is, I'm thinking more about the "average user" (which I am, most of the time,) and the fact that these issues exist in Android, which is based on Linux.

Frankly, I have a tablet I would love to install Linux on as the primary OS, but so far I haven't seen any evidence that I can. It's an Idolian TurboTab C8. If I could put Linux on there, I would, since Android doesn't work very well on it.