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A Sony Camera Running Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the answer-is-yes dept.

jonr writes "At the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show, Sony presented the new camera from its Cyber-shot product line. The DSC-G3 comes with a Zeiss lens with 4x zoom, a large 3.5" touch display, and 4GB of internal memory. Most interesting is the camera's software that includes, among other things, face and scene recognition, based on Busybox and Kernel 2.6.11 for the Access Linux Platform. The camera also has built-in Wi-Fi."

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  1. My 5 year old Sony TV came with a GPL notice by YesIAmAScript · · Score: 4, Informative

    For busybox.

    So this isn't a new thing for Sony.

    There's even a URL at Sony's site for the code (of course). I forget what it was.

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    http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/20/95
    1. Re:My 5 year old Sony TV came with a GPL notice by poopdeville · · Score: 3, Informative

      Not quite. The Sony that makes TVs is not the same company as the one that sells music. They share little more than the name.

      Not true. Sony Corp. owns the Sony Group, and has a direct historical and managerial relationship with them.

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      After all, I am strangely colored.
  2. Price by CannonballHead · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those interested but too lazy to click a link:

    The DSC-G3 costs about $500 in the U.S.

  3. Re:Yeah but, by pato101 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nice, that is not the only model which is running Linux. Actually, my own camera (eighteen months old) seems to be running Linux as well:
    http://www.sony.net/Products/Linux/Download/DSC-W90.html
    Here is a list of their products using Linux, as I understand:
    http://www.sony.net/Products/Linux/Download/search.html