Yes, I know. Bad title. After so many years only a handful of people will decipher it that I am looking for an affordable and standards compliant ARM machine for Linux & FreeBSD. It refers to a machine released 8 years ago, and a blog I wrote 4 years ago: The ARM developers workstation: Why the SoftIron OverDrive 1000 is still relevant The good news is that since my previous blog there is a lot more ARM hardware available.

The 31st birthday of the Linux #kernel was yesterday. For this occasion some opensource.com contributors (including me) shared how we got started with Linux. Lots of nice memories :-) The article is available at https://opensource.com/article/22/8/linux-birthday-origin-stories flower