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 <chris.simmonds@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
