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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
Are "we" able to install and run a linux program on one of these devices? Is that capability available to linux versed end users?
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Yes, we are, just as previous poster said.
Even YOU are able to create, install and run a program, if I give you a very short crash-course.
Said program will be written in Shell script and will be executed from Linux Terminal (that is available as third-party application).
Listing of sample program in shell, called hello.sh
#### beginning of hello.sh file ####
echo "Hello World"
#### end of hello.sh file ####
There are some games, some utilities, such as Terminal Emulator mentioned in previous paragraph, there is ported CoolReader, modified version of FBReader ...
The system installed on device is built on Embedded Debian, and is using BusyBox.
See
http://www.emdebian.org/
http://www.busybox.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
BusyBox provides several stripped-down Unix tools in a single executable. It runs in a variety of POSIX environments such as Linux, Android[5], FreeBSD[6] and other proprietary kernels, although many of the tools it provides are designed to work with interfaces provided by the Linux kernel. It is ideally suited to run in embedded devices. It has been self-dubbed "The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux"
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