Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled
by keb_ on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @12:07PM
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How would I recommend I get into embedded Linux as a total newbie with only Node/Ruby experience? :^)
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Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled
by TheGlav on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @12:37PM
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No joke: just start!
Learn C and C++. Find a cheap micro pc board, pick one of the embedded linux distros that run on it, and make something with it.
Repeat until you get bored, exhausted, or a job. :)
Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled
by bluGill on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:36PM
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Make sure you touch a little rust too. C and C++ are still big, but embedded is interested in Rust as a potential mitigation for issues they have.
Re:1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled
by roland35 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @12:46PM
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Try getting a single board computer such as a raspberry pi, and see if you can get it to do stuff! Hook it up to some SPI or I2C peripheral boards to read temperature or light. Stream data to a cloud.
Another big part of embedded Linux is managing the OS itself and updates. Things like Yocto handle building an OS image