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squelch · 03-07-2022, 05:25 PM

Hi, just today I did a jailbreak and installed KUAL and then Koreader on my KT2, everything works great, thank you so much to all contributors for your great work!

I went poking around the files and found out that the kindle firmware is mostly just linux (no big surprise) and this gave me an idea.

I greatly prefer my devices to run freedom software as much as possible so I was wondering how far fetched it would be to completely do away with the proprietary amazon software and instead use an alternative reader like Koreader on it's own?

Is there anything preventing this or posing an obstacle? For instance, is Koreader just a regular GUI program or does it interface with daemons/services provided by the amazon software?

03-07-2022, 05:25 PM	#1
squelch Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2022 Device: Kindle KT2	[question] Standalone Koreader on Kindle Hi, just today I did a jailbreak and installed KUAL and then Koreader on my KT2, everything works great, thank you so much to all contributors for your great work! I went poking around the files and found out that the kindle firmware is mostly just linux (no big surprise) and this gave me an idea. I greatly prefer my devices to run freedom software as much as possible so I was wondering how far fetched it would be to completely do away with the proprietary amazon software and instead use an alternative reader like Koreader on it's own? Is there anything preventing this or posing an obstacle? For instance, is Koreader just a regular GUI program or does it interface with daemons/services provided by the amazon software?