GadgetReview » Foo Camp http://www.gadgetreview.com Your Source for Gadget News, Reviews and Deals Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:10:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Kindle 2 Now With…Linux? http://www.gadgetreview.com/2009/09/kindle-2-now-withlinux.html http://www.gadgetreview.com/2009/09/kindle-2-now-withlinux.html#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:02:22 +0000 stevea http://www.gadgetreview.com/?p=35417 linux-kindle

This is a development the folks at Amazon likely weren’t expecting.

Seems that some enterprising soul out there, whom you might recognize when I tell you it’s Jesse Vincent, managed to get his recently-released Kindle 2 ebook from Amazon to run Ubuntu 9.04.

He apparently did it for no other reason than 1. to prove it could be done in the first place and 2. to get some serious geek cred at Foo Camp last weekend, where he showed off his new, previously unheard of Linux Kindle.

The practical ramifications of this do escape me somewhat, but even I’ve got to admit, as a concept, it’s still pretty cool.

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