  Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research asteroid survey (LINEAR) observed
approximately 10,000 deg$^2$ of the northern sky in the period roughly from
1998 to 2013. Long baseline of observations combined with good cadence and
depth ($14.5 < r_{SDSS}< 17.5$) provides excellent basis for investigation of
variable and transient objects in this relatively faint and underexplored part
of the sky. Details covering the repurposing of this survey for use in time
domain astronomy, creation of a highly reliable catalogue of approximately
7,200 periodically variable stars (RR Lyrae, eclipsing binaries, SX Phe stars
and LPVs) as well as search for optical signatures of exotic transient events
(such as tidal disruption event candidates), are presented.
