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Originally Posted by Huyggy
I was thinking about something. Since it's a linux OS, would it be possible to use Wine and then install some excellent PDF viewer as PDF x-change viewer (who would win easily the legibility contest again Adobe viewer or others) ?
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Not possible.
WINE is an acronym that stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator.
Both Linux and windows binaries run on the same Intel x86 compatible processor on PC. The "only" difference is, that Linux binary and Windows binary (exe program) have different format of the beginning of the file and different file organisation and that they require certain services from underlying operating system. Services like access to the filesystem, library calls ... . But the underlying machine code tht actually runs on processor is essentially the same.
PocketBook runs on different type or processor. Freescale if I remember correctly.
Even Linuc programs can not be run very easily on PocketBook. They have to use special [not very well documented] libraries to access hardware, such as e-ink display. So software must be re-written - ported to PocketBook system and compiled for special type of processor PocketBook readers use.