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kindler8 · 02-15-2019, 11:21 AM

Hi everyone,

First of all, thank you for your efforts with the Kindles in this forum.

I'm a long time lurker who just registered to ask some questions on the same topic.

I bought a Kindle KT3 (8th gen), hoping I could use it for a little more than just reading books as I saw some people posting videos of jailbroken kindles running debian. Sadly those were not KT3s and when I found out that in order to jailbreak the KT3 I shouldn't have connected to the internet, it was already too late. My firmware is already a version that is not compatible with the jailbreak.

My goal is to be able to use my KT3 as a Linux machine either by:
- Running linux natively
- Running a VNC client that connects to a Linux machine.

All the while keeping the KT3 original software (if possible).

Would you know if these goals are feasible on KT3 and how could I achieve them? I suppose the first step would be to jailbreak it through the serial port?

Thanks!

02-15-2019, 11:21 AM	#6
kindler8 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2019 Device: kindle 8	Hi everyone, First of all, thank you for your efforts with the Kindles in this forum. I'm a long time lurker who just registered to ask some questions on the same topic. I bought a Kindle KT3 (8th gen), hoping I could use it for a little more than just reading books as I saw some people posting videos of jailbroken kindles running debian. Sadly those were not KT3s and when I found out that in order to jailbreak the KT3 I shouldn't have connected to the internet, it was already too late. My firmware is already a version that is not compatible with the jailbreak. My goal is to be able to use my KT3 as a Linux machine either by: - Running linux natively - Running a VNC client that connects to a Linux machine. All the while keeping the KT3 original software (if possible). Would you know if these goals are feasible on KT3 and how could I achieve them? I suppose the first step would be to jailbreak it through the serial port? Thanks!