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Originally Posted by docidocus
Why I drivel so much about this instead going off, working on Open Boox? Well, there are actually a couple of reasons. First of all, I do not want to build an alternative firmware. What I want to do is continue developing the official firmware with a free and open community. As a second reason, I do not own the Boox60 device. And lastly, the development stopped three years ago. What about PocketBook free? Just the same. They are even longer inactive.
I hope I could make my points clear in this rather long post. If there is anyone interested, please raise hands! I am looking forward to your replies.
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I am definitely still interested in this device which I use with Obuntu. But, like the others, I'm not a developer. Having Linux on such a device means that it has a serious operating system and so can run serious applications. By comparison, with the M96 one has to use something like Linux Deploy.
You seem to understand the history of the device and of Onyx in general. I get the impression that Seaniko7 put an enormous amount of work into Obuntu and, if you read his comments in this thread, was rather constrained in terms of the options open to him. Given how little interest there is likely to be in this device, as people do seem to move on rather quickly, I would have thought that your best option would be to continue the development of Obuntu.
Perhaps, if you have access to the sources, much as Seaniko7 did, you will be able to do that. If you look at the Obuntu images thread, you will see that it seems to do most things just fine. I've had problems, which are documented in that thread, but they seem to be difficulties arising during installation rather than fundamental problems with Obuntu itself. Given that, I can't imagine too much difficulty in using a VNC app to use it as a monitor, for instance. Like Seaniko, you are likely to be largely on your own and this would seem to be the path of least effort.