Running a full desktop environment on a Kindle (2019)

Re:Running a full desktop environment on a Kindle (2019) by simonmales on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:46PM (#25260019)

First I heard of Kindles having Linux installed on them, I'm too excited by hackable e-ink device.

Seems like Kindles will have more legs than a dated iDevice.

I've never owned a Kindle, are they priced below their pure hardware cost? If so they suddenly become very tempting.

I don't know what I'm looking at but it looks like the current generation is around 50 Euros.

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Re:Running a full desktop environment on a Kindle (2019) by gh02t on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:46PM (#25260542)

There's been a whole ecosystem of homebrew Kindle software on and off for a while, some of which add some nice functionality like a better PDF reader. Not sure about current status of efforts, but I played around with it a few years ago and it was reasonably lively back then.

Amazon offers a "subsidized" version with some minimal ads that is $20 cheaper, that suggests to me that they are selling it at cost or at least near it. Incidentally, I kinda like the ads... they aren't intrusive (to me at least) and they have actually have given me some decent recommendations before.

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Re:Running a full desktop environment on a Kindle (2019) by powersnail on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:57PM (#25260618)

Keep the ads! At least they are book covers. The non-ad version has horrible lock screen images.

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Re:Running a full desktop environment on a Kindle (2019) by Stratoscope on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:20PM (#25261930)

Agreed, I've discovered a few interesting books thanks to the ads. And they are no more intrusive than the non-ad lock screens.

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