Thread: Linux E-Readers
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Old 05-25-2021, 04:44 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Have you ever opened an Telnet/SSH session to a Kobo ereader using either WiFi or USBNetwork? As for worrying about a WiFi connection? I seem to read about the seemingly endless desire of Kindle users to jailbreak their devices and Android owners to root their devices without worrying about any security issues. Given that most homes use a WiFi router that does not expose the devices to inbound connections, I'm not that worried about my Kobo device being hacked.
Can you do that with zero modification out of the box? No?

What I'm saying is, Kobo's don't run like you might expect standard Linux distros to. You can't kick up xterm out of the box and start installing emacs. Yeah, you can modify Kobo's I'm not arguing that.

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