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Sony Products That Run Embedded Linux

Posted by timothy on from the run-linux-run dept.

tbirdsaw writes "I was browsing for information on how to run Linux on the PS2 without a Linux Kit (they've stopped selling them in the U.S., AFAIK). While searching, I stumbled across Sony's Open Source Code website. They have quite a few products that run an embedded linux system, including some professional video switchers (MVS8000?) and at least several of their relatively new XDCAM disc-based video format decks. Might make for some hardware/firmware hacking in the near future?"

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  1. Price? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure. Buy me a $15,000 XDCAM device and I'll hack it...

    If you're willing to spend that amount of money on a device then you're going to want to make sure it works exactly like it says on the box. The number of people willing to start fiddling with the internals and hack it is going to be extremely limited.

    1. Re:Price? by Bert64 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      But in a few years when they're obsolete and the companies who bought them don't want them anymore they will be available cheap on ebay.. Just like the $40k sun workstations you can pick up for $10 nowadays.

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