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[[Image:Gphoto-logoRockboxlogo.png|right|gPhotoThe Rockbox logo]]

'''[[gPhotoRockbox]]''' is a [[free software]] package of/ [[digitalopen photographysource software|digitalopen camerasource]] applications withoperating supportsystem for more[[digital thanaudio 600player]]s cameras(DAPs). It is availablereleased under the [[GNU GeneralGPL]] Public- Licensea [[free software licence]]. gPhotoThe Rockbox project began in late 2001 and was first runsimplemented on [[GNU/Linux]],the [[FreeBSDArchos]], [[NetBSD]]Studio andDAP otherbecause [[Unixof owner frustration with severe limitations in the manufacturer-like]]supplied operatinguser interface and device systemsoperations.

Rockbox replaces the host device's operating system [[firmware]] and has matured to become an extensible, flexible platform that provides a plug-in architecture for adding [[Personal digital assistant|PDA]] functionality, applications, utilities, and games, and has also managed to [[retro]]fit video playback functionality onto DAPs first released in mid-2000. Recently, Rockbox now includes a voice-driven user-interface suitable for operation by blind and visually impaired users.

gPhoto has support for the [[Picture Transfer Protocol]].

Rockbox runs on a wide variety of devices with very different hardware abilities: from early Archos players with 1-bit [[Character-cell and block-oriented terminals|charcell]]-based displays to modern high resolution color [[iPod]]s and [[iRiver]] players with digital optical audio hardware and advanced recording capabilities.

Many cameras are not supported by gPhoto, but have support for the [[USB storage]] protocol, which is well-supported under [[GNU/Linux]].

Although Rockbox's official title is "Rockbox: Open Source Jukebox Firmware", in many instances it is not actually installed to (or run from) [[flash memory]]. Instead a minimal [[bootloader]] is installed in the supported device's flash which is capable of loading either Rockbox from the hard disk or, alternatively, the original factory firmware.

gPhoto provides a [[command line interface]] and its design allows for other frontends to be written for it. [[gtkam]] is the official [[GUI]] client for gPhoto, other clients are the [[KDE]] program [[digikam]] and the [[Mono]] based [[f-spot]].

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<div style="text-align:right; font-size: smaller;">(''Previous features'': [[GNU Project]], [[Blender (software)|Blender]], [[OpenOffice.org]], [[GNU General Public License]], [[Asterisk PBX]], [[OpenBSD]], [[Apache HTTP Server]], [[MySQL]], [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]], [[Python programming language|Python]], [[KDE]], [[Linux kernel]], [[LaTeX]], [[Fórum Internacional Software Livre]], [[gPhoto]].)</div>