Re: [CentOS] security cameras

On 02/25/11 3:27 AM, ken wrote:

I read that. I would imagine that a lot of digital cameras-- in fact, a lot of digital devices-- employ Linux in their firmware. If I were writing code for an ARM processor, that's what I'd do. Why reinvent the wheel? You'd think under the GPL they'd be required to divulge the firmware code. And there should be a way to hack into these. But now I'm going way OT.

the embedded device guys seem to get around that nowdays by offering the source as a generic kernel and util tarball and a tarball of their own code they consider GPL, which is almost never buildable without massive effort, and is usually very incomplete.