Gumstix

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

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`"