April 11, 2014 - The Imaging Source announced the availability of Open Source Linux support for all of its cameras. The source code - which is released under the Apache License 2.0 - is available as an Open Source project and allows the integration of all cameras with GigE, USB and FireWire interfaces into popular distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS and Red Hat. Rolf Bollhorst, CEO and founder of The Imaging Source states: "We have seen customer demand for Linux support continually grow in the past few years. In the meantime, we work with Linux every day.
Therefore, it makes sense for us to offer comprehensive Open Source software at GitHub.com to integrate our cameras into popular distributions. We look forward to the feedback from our customers." You can download the Open Source source code from The Imaging Source at GitHub.com and compile it directly into your own applications.
About The Imaging Source
The Imaging Source is a multinational enterprise with branches in the US, Taiwan and Germany. They have been manufacturing imaging products for scientific, industrial and medical applications for more than twenty years. The industrial cameras, converters and frame grabbers manufactured by The Imaging Source are highly robust and are designed to run for years with no maintenance. The Imaging Source products are typically deployed in factory automation, quality inspection, medical systems, microscopy systems, life science projects and as of 2007 amateur astronomy. All imaging products manufactured by The Imaging Source ship with Microsoft Windows drivers, an SDK and powerful software for device control, display and saving of images.