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Samsung's Linux-based Diskless Camcorder
An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices has a story about the Samsung Miniket, a digital camcorder the size of a pack of cards that also works as a portable MP3 player, webcam, voice recorder, storage device, and more. The Miniket (annoying Flash and sound) will be available in February or March in the US, for $600-$700, with a rugged 'sports' model to follow. The device runs Linux, boots in under a second, and is the first of several products from Samsung that will run a new variation of Linux called 'ARM-no-MMU.' LinuxDevices also has a whitepaper about Samsung research that shows the new Linux variant to be faster than normal Linux."
Go buy more stuff!
It will wind up in a pawn shop after someone steals it anyway, if it doesnt break first from someone sneezing near it.
Where is the source code? I bet they saved a ton on R & D. It probably took them a day to hack up the kernel and fit in their cheap hardware and a week to find(fix?) the bugs. $700? That thing better check my mail, call mom, and walk the dog! Where is the source???? What if it panics on me and I need to fix it?? Send it off, wait 6 months only to find out it fell off the boat into the pacific?
Seriously though, its great that theyre not spending money on crapware that would ultimately raise the price of the product, but I still disagree with the premise of buying in to planned obsolescence.
Sorry - it just pisses me off to picture some dork plugging into an XP box not knowing a damn thing about whats going on inside either machine.
You are about to give someone a piece of your mind, something which you can ill afford...