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Old 05-25-2012, 04:38 PM   #142
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But it looks like my curiosity may not be satisfied until knc1 has more time to document this.
I am not (intentionally) trying to be an asshole, just being honest about the likelyhood of my ever finishing anything that I want to do.
Over here (my side of the keyboard), its called: Life gets in the way.
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As GM says: The plan may run afoal of actual implementation details.
RANT
By hindsight, it seems to me that Amazon totally ignored the experiences of LinkSys (the folks that put Linux into a consumer product with the thought in mind that "nobody would ever look under the hood").
Yeah, right!

It is almost as if Amazon was thinking: "People will only use this to read books, so it doesn't matter if we use WinCE or Linux".
(Freescale supports WinCE on their SoC devices.)

If that wasn't the case, then they would (for instance) just load USBnet and export the user's area as CIFS.
Thus requiring a "set up disk" for Windows users.

But what after-market device that plugs into a Windows box does not come with a "set up disk"?
That wouldn't have been anything unexpected by Windows users - __everything__ they buy comes with one of those (even when it isn't needed because of Window's built-in automation).

Linksys learned their lesson and now are a supporter of after-market modifications.
Maybe Amazon will learn that lesson also.
/RANT
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