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The gumstix motherboard used is the verdex XL6P. It has a 600MHz Marvell XScale processor, 128MB of RAM, and 32MB of flash.
The 120 pin expansion socket has a netCF-vx network interface card for TCP/IP networking. This card also has a Compact Flash slot should additional storage be required.
The 60 pin expansion socket has a breakout-vx card to allow access to the I2C signals, serial ports, and various other GPIO possibilities.

Links

Hardware

Gumstix computers
Gumstix Documentation Wiki

Software

I2C installation

cgi-bin programs

Boa Webserver is the webserver on the Gumstix.
cgicc is the C++ library used for handling web scripts.
Buildroot is the system used to build the root image for the gumstix.

Tutorials

I2C Linux from userspace.
[http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialC++CGI.html libcgicc

Misc

Setting the date

The busybox date -s accepts a very limited format. Use it from another Linux box as follows:

ssh root@134.50.203.56 "echo date -s `date +%m%d%H%M%Y`"

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 [http://docwiki.gumstix.org/Main_Page Gumstix Documentation Wiki]<br/>
 ===Software===
+====I2C installation====
+==== cgi-bin programs ====
 [http://www.boa.org Boa Webserver] is the webserver on the Gumstix.<br/>
 [http://www.gnu.org/software/cgicc/ cgicc] is the C++ library used for handling web scripts.<br/>
 [http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ Buildroot] is the system used to build the root image for the gumstix.<br/>
 ===Tutorials===
 [http://www.stlinux.com/docs/manual/distribution/distribution_guide6.php I2C Linux] from userspace.<br/>