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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. Re:My 5 year old Sony TV came with a GPL notice by Hairy+Heron · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well of course it's not new, they are a well-known supporter and user of Linux.

  2. Re:Year of the Linux camera? by sdpuppy · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I can just see what the little kids say now:

    "Daddy's camera's got a penguin on the screen when he starts it up!"

    Something like that happened a while ago when I got on on of those airplanes with a LCD on the back of each chair - they had to reboot the computer and the screen showed the boot sequence, including penguin. No, no no - this was the entertainment computer.