I had a IP camera running uclinux [1] on ARM7 years ago. The camera was connected to the CPU with USB interface internally. I guess the benefit with using Linux

I had a IP camera running uclinux [1] on ARM7 years ago. The camera was connected to the CPU with USB interface internally. I guess the benefit with using Linux was free ip, USB, and uvc stack. 1. http://www.uclinux.org http://www.uclinux.org