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Ubuntu 9.04 On Kindle 2

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 3, 2009 @08:13AM from the general-insanity dept.

JO_DIE_THE_STAR_F*** writes "Jesse Vincent managed to get Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope running on the Kindle 2. The new functionality was presented in a talk at OSCON 2009."

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A couple notes... by jesse · 2009-09-03 09:07 · Score: 5, Informative

What I did was to get a Jaunty _chroot_ running on the Kindle 2. The interesting bits were mostly around making X work and beating the 5-pad into submission.