Re:What is Lab126, Amazon’s secretive research laboratory?
by solarkraft on Monday May 02, 2022 @05:09PM
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Bits of trivia: Some Kindle components are named after Mario characters. My Kindle Touch is built on the Yoshi platform (that is the only one I can find right now, but I remember there being more; boot logs contain "K76mcsd:def:skipping on non-Mario-based WW hardware").
My Kindle's root password is "fiona430" (Shrek?).
The Kindle Touch's system is a pretty normal Linux from around 2010. Upstart, D-Bus, Xorg, awesome WM. The shell is made with GTK 2 and lots of unobfuscated, commented (!!!) Javascript. It's a joy to explore. If the kernel wasn't ancient you could run modern Linux apps on it - on the newer models you can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcZiVo1z4Eg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHoPgXb-JNM
Maybe somebody from lab126 could comment on the culture that brought forth software internally so fun.
My Kindle's root password is "fiona430" (Shrek?).
The Kindle Touch's system is a pretty normal Linux from around 2010. Upstart, D-Bus, Xorg, awesome WM. The shell is made with GTK 2 and lots of unobfuscated, commented (!!!) Javascript. It's a joy to explore. If the kernel wasn't ancient you could run modern Linux apps on it - on the newer models you can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcZiVo1z4Eg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHoPgXb-JNM
Maybe somebody from lab126 could comment on the culture that brought forth software internally so fun.