Thread: Linux E-Readers
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Old 05-25-2021, 03:58 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Odd, I could have sworn my Kobo ereaders give me root access out of the box. No jailbreaking, no rooting, no hacking needed. But what do I know after a decade or so of using Kobo ereaders?
You can modify things especially when connected over USB, but that's not "root" in *nix sense.

Or are you telling me Kobo runs the user as root (in the unix sense) out of the box with no modifications required because frankly that sounds like a terrible idea for a WiFi enabled device?
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