OP Here,
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Originally Posted by h1uke
FYI: this is exactly what our fbterm port to Kindle, which is coming soon, will be doing.
Differences/benefits are: - scalable fonts with no odd character width limitation
- Unicode support
- comes along with rich input method
- can coexist with launchpad
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Interesting. If you want any help, please contact me. you can find my email on xkid.biz (Or if youd like to let me play with what you already have
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btw, good work with launchpad
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Originally Posted by dsmid
If 'install' means compile, copy & run, then yes, you can.
mplayer, fbreader and others are just linux apps compiled for Kindle.
The user interface is the problem.
Kindle doesn't have an X server so you cannot normally run GUI apps (it is only possible to compile apps utilizing Qt somehow, e.g. fbreader). TUI apps don't need an X server but they need a visible terminal controlled by Kindle keyboard. And that's what fbterm could provide.
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Actually, you can run X11 on the kindle. i have it running on my kindle currently. Patches can be found in the old savory repo.
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Originally Posted by Tanga
Neat. there are a couple od terminal apps which might be good. What flavour linux does the kindle use? Can I use debs or something easy like that?
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The kindle isnt running any "flavour" of linux, if youd like a simple apt-get like your used to look at the howto on installing debian. Although its not recommended for newbies. I may write an easier tutorial sometime soon.