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[News] Cameras Are Computers Too... Powered by Linux

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Access' ALP Appears... in a Camera?

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| Sony's Cybershot DSC-G3 was announced earlier this month, and is one of the 
| first consumer products shipping in with the Access Linux Platform (ALP), the 
| successor to the original Palm OS/Garnet OS which was used in Palm, 
| Handspring, and Sony PDAs and smartphones.   
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http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/syslog/viewblogpost.htm?p=339271137

There's likely to be more Linux than Windows and Mac OS (combined) out there.
Apple and Microsoft mostly fail outside desktops.


Recent:

Sony DSC-G3 Camera Has Wi-Fi and Linux

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| At the Las Vegas 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 4 GBytes 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
| (ALP).
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/sony_dsc_g3_camera_has_wi_fi_and_linux


WiFi digital camera runs Linux

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| Sony Electronics is shipping a digital still camera with WiFi for uploading
| files to photo-sharing services. The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3 offers
| 10-megapixel recording, a 4X optical zoom, DLNA compliance, 4GB of memory,
| and face- and scene-recognition software that runs on Linux.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2881537833.html?kc=rss


Linux still top embedded OS

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| In a new whitepaper on Linux in the embedded market, VDC researchers cite the
| following reasons for Linux's popularity:
|
|     * Licensing cost advantages
|     * Flexibility of source code access
|     * General familiarity
|     * Maturing ecosystem of applications and tools
|     * Growing developer experience with Linux as an embedded OS
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4920597981.html


Embedded Linux research report ships

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| EDC noted that some 40 percent of the survey's 500 respondents were targeting
| embedded Linux.
|
| [...]
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| Also in the earlier reports, Andrews observed that the need for RTOS source
| code was "one of the reasons that proprietary RTOSes created in-house for a
| specific system have long been popular, and now it's a primary motivating
| factor in the adoption of Embedded Linux."
|
| The now completed survey results are said to include "expert analysis" from
| Ann Thryft, a 20-year industry veteran. The report includes chapters on
| platforms, processors, tools, languages, security, target devices, mobile
| development, and of course, Linux.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7613839836.html
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