Thanks for the reply Hluke,
Having now looked at the install.sh scripts in some hacks I have figured out as much, there is still some other stuff I am curious about that seems kindle specific, like what file ~help is drawing from, but I am sure that is in the scripts since it gets changed, I will pore over them in depth at some point in the next few days when I am avoiding my family.
I have wanted to hack my kindle as a way of learning more about linux (primarily the kernel of which I understand nothing), and to have an environment I can contribute to that I feel isn't so built up as everyday desktop linux. I know C and Java, linux is newer to me (I have only been using *nix for about a year, but not fulltime until recently with arch).
Once I can get your launchpad to work I would like to start programming/porting some stuff in c for the kindle.
p.s. your p.s. message confused me, are you making a matrix reference?