LinuxDevices.com Vanishes From the Web

Posted by Unknown on Thursday May 9, 2013 @12:31PM from the vh1-behind-the-website dept.

DeviceGuru writes "Embedded Linux pioneer LinuxDevices.com departed from the web earlier this week. The site became a collateral casualty of the aquisition of eWEEK by Quinstreet in February 2012, as part of a bundle of Ziff Davis Enterprise assets. Quinstreet immediately fired all the LinuxDevices staffers and ceased maintaining the site. A few days ago, the site's plug was finally pulled and it is now gone from the Web, save for a few pages on the WayBack Machine. For more than a decade, LinuxDevices played a pivotal role in serving and fostering an emerging embedded Linux ecosystem, and it was well respected by the embedded Linux community at the time it was acquired by QuinStreet. Unfortunately, the site did not mesh well with QuinStreet's B2B market focus. Fortunately, its spirit remains alive and well at LinuxGizmos.com, a site recently launched by LinuxDevices founder Rick Lehrbaum."

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LinuxGIsmos is fine but by FudRucker · 2013-05-09 12:40 · Score: 4, Funny

what about Linux Gadgets, wont somebody think of the gadgets!!!

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1. Re:LinuxGIsmos is fine but by Chas · 2013-05-09 13:12 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Pfft.
  Widgets forever!
  You and your pansy little girly-gadgets!
  
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aaand site's offilne by ThorGod · 2013-05-09 12:43 · Score: 3, Funny

Looks like we just /.ed LinuxGizmos.com

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AND ... !! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-09 12:47 · Score: 2, Funny

Another One Bits the Dust !!