A Sony Camera Running Linux

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."

My 5 year old Sony TV came with a GPL notice

[YesIAmAScript]

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.

Price

[CannonballHead]

For those interested but too lazy to click a link:

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

Re:The 'Smart' Camera Revolution

[Enderandrew]

What we're talking about here is a $500 camera, which is a bit different from the cheap cameras they bundle with phones.

Re:Yeah but,

[Anonymous Coward]

...Does it run...oh yeah...never mind.

Being from Sony, it does run a rootkit.

And don't mod all the rootkit posts down, mod them UP. As a lesson to anyone out there even contemplating embedding malware into their products, Sony needs to pay for their bit of greedy asininity for a LONG time.

Re:Will it support Linux client access?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not true. Sony make great broadcast products and a couple of decent "prosumer" things. It's only their consumer stuff that is total shit.

Re:My 5 year old Sony TV came with a GPL notice

[poopdeville]

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.

Re:Yeah but,

[pato101]

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 [sony.net]
Here is a list of their products using Linux, as I understand:
http://www.sony.net/Products/Linux/Download/search.html [sony.net]

Re:Any good?

[pato101]

My DSC-W90 seems to be running Linux as well(http://www.sony.net/Products/Linux/Download/DSC-W90.html). And from "power on" to "ready to snap" takes about a second.

Re:Year of the Linux camera?

[Anonymous Coward]

had to reboot the computer

showed the boot sequence, including penguin.

had to reboot... linux?

Does not compute!

Re:Wi-Fi

[afidel]

Huh, a 10MP NEF is about 9MB which should take 4-5 seconds over 802.11g.