Kari, Amazon's Kindle runs Linux, BUT it was almost stifled by Microsoft unless they signed a big fat hairy cross licensing agreement and paid Microsoft $$$ to run Linux. The ipad killer is literally here already. We have magnitudes more software available than the iphone OS can imagine.
We just need someone to produce the thing, make nice pretty software packages for the consumer to click and install, restrict the gui for the average consumer yet allow developers and other hackers full access to it. If not, people will hack it and squeeze Linux on it anyway, thus the hackers create a niche buying frenzy. Why not open it in the first place! No one said anything about this CRAZY Amazon+Microsoft deal here in the lug so I figured this topic was a good segue for it. Kari, here is your Linux Ebook reader getting muscled by Microsoft. BTW, there are also TONS of hacks for the Kindle to do nice things, but by itself the Kindle sends your GPS locations, sites, syslog and books read back to Amazon(not so nice)! Short concise version of hacking the Kindle, I saw this at OSCON 2009 http://www.slideshare.net/obrajesse/hacking-your-kindle-oscon-lightning-talk This is the LONG, detailed and rather humorous from the initial Kindle hacker http://www.slideshare.net/obrajesse/beginning-kindle-hackery Microsoft+Amazon deal news... FUD as usual http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10457989-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 Bryan On 4/7/10, Kari Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope that some hardware manufacturers bring something ipad-ish to market > with linux on it. I'd love a linux ebook reader. > > And if it had something like android on it, I'd be happy. > > http://blogs.computerworld.com/15487/anything_the_ipad_can_do_linux_can_do_better > > ~kari > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- A healthy diet includes Linux, Linux, and more Linux. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
