From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Osier-Mixon Subject: Re: History of embedded Linux Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:28:15 -0700 Message-ID: References: <500D66F5.5030906@2net.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=1thaZG6ExjY4AAzGqNwrpteSE3GtCvMFZBWAJorlf70=; b=Zn3A5ymu6ixDE9WHF5s75aIvOS68oC6UHGN2R6kA7ViBAro0bCcMnWG6swj87I7ty/ Lp55rzdOMfIGhzHKLMAzGpB1ewDmbO74jX3aEScvD/ithwm3Tl3DR6l7ijbzMIQMy+XH v6oiEdn9g0lfuj1US9EBAnD/iclvooPWYdHb4NtAWBPJ/aOBvPWpVVLChSOBJuDLIXik Xg6mzEOOqJuGoqCCEL6/jBqNx2o8/N0bcFvy/91NCoxRYvnGEmew8Mw20HMaFwnFWrUF j8/yL1t39zjt/gM1Ei2xV1tFohxrweRe3Jj0lVkLQwT483ExTgb4AFp1fJGKlVce02AJ 3fzw== In-Reply-To: <500D66F5.5030906@2net.co.uk> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: chris@2net.co.uk Cc: linux-embedded Looks like an excellent start. I think it would be good to add OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project - I'll try to get some key dates together. On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Chris Simmonds wrote: > Hi, > > This is a little off-topic, but I have a bee in my bonnet about documenting > where "embedded Linux" came from. As a starting point, I have written up a > time line of key events, which is here > > http://embedded-linux.co.uk/embedded-history > > I am aware that there is a lot that I have missed, or misunderstood, so if > you have a few minutes to spare perhaps you could have a look at it and tell > me what I have got wrong. I am not sure where I am going with this, but I > would like to use it as the basis of a longer document/web site/garden shed > on the topic of the evolution of Linux as an embedded operating system. > > Oh, one last thing. If someone has some reasonably reliable figures of the > numbers of Linux products shipped, that would be nice. Ideally I would like > a graph that goes from zero in 1995 to NNN million in 2012. I know, its a > dream, can't be done... > > Bye for now, > Chris Simmonds > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org