Thread: [HOWTO] Create your own native development environment on your Kobo!
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Old 01-03-2021, 06:45 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by NiMa View Post
It's not the firmware, it's the Linux kernel. If you download a firmware update (aka KoboRoot.tgz), only the filesystem is updated, and the kernel version stays the same.
The firmware update is not just "KoboRoot.tgz". The full package includes the kernel in the "update" directories. Kobo does change these, but, not as frequently as the rest of firmware package. And they don't update the actual kernel version, or at least not the major version.

And if you only ever use the "KoboRoot.tgz" file to do updates, something will eventually break.

Edit: Beaten by @NiLuJe.
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