Ubuntu running on a Kindle 2(gadgets.boingboing.net)
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Ubuntu running on a Kindle 2
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/09/02/photo-and-descriptio.html
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I can answer some of these from my poking around. I have a Kindle DX.
1) Yes, the browser proxies through amazon.
2) I'm not sure what you mean but you can pretty much pull up any website you want.
3) Not sure about this question.
4) Yes, each device is tied to your amazon account.
5) I think someone inside Sprint or Amazon would have to answer this.
6) There are hacks to attach it to a PC in USBNET mode.
1) Yes, the browser proxies through amazon.
2) I'm not sure what you mean but you can pretty much pull up any website you want.
3) Not sure about this question.
4) Yes, each device is tied to your amazon account.
5) I think someone inside Sprint or Amazon would have to answer this.
6) There are hacks to attach it to a PC in USBNET mode.
You misinterpreted most of my questions :/
2) I'm asking if the device can open a direct socket to a host on the public internet. Your answer to (1) implies that the device might not be able to talk to anything but amazon's (potentially non-HTTP) servers, but it might just be for MiTM reformatting (like Opera Mini)
4) Of course the device is tied to your Amazon ID. I'm asking if the modem's permanent radio ID is a part of that
6) That feature is for avoiding the use of the modem, not bridging it! It's only a first step towards tethering. By default it lets the Kindle use the PC's internet connection, not the other way around (which is all that I care about)
2) I'm asking if the device can open a direct socket to a host on the public internet. Your answer to (1) implies that the device might not be able to talk to anything but amazon's (potentially non-HTTP) servers, but it might just be for MiTM reformatting (like Opera Mini)
4) Of course the device is tied to your Amazon ID. I'm asking if the modem's permanent radio ID is a part of that
6) That feature is for avoiding the use of the modem, not bridging it! It's only a first step towards tethering. By default it lets the Kindle use the PC's internet connection, not the other way around (which is all that I care about)
Hm are you happy with your DX? I've been seriously considering getting one.
I wonder if this means you could get LaTeX documents to be readable on the Kindle. I have a few free math books that are in LaTeX, so this would be useful to me.
Apparently you can convert PDFs to a Kindle viewable format, if that's true then you can convert LaTeX documents by way of PDF.
Yeah I'm certain that you can, but I'm not sure how well it would convert though. I've read that pdf's won't convert well if there is a lot of graphics in the file. And I would expect that some of the text would be treated as graphics since I'm not really aware of any common text format that handles mathematical symbols well.
There doesn't seem to be any reason you couldn't get xpdf/evince/okular to run. He got X and QT running...
For this reason, and the internet connection, I would probably get one, if they were available where I live... And the internet connection worked here.
For this reason, and the internet connection, I would probably get one, if they were available where I live... And the internet connection worked here.
Is it possible to use much of a GUI with it?
If you follow the links he has X running on it, but the refresh rate is slow, for obvious reasons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/obra/3702221011/ (< video)
But does it run Linux? Oh... Wait.
I'm curious if Amazon put in any safeguards against this: