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Originally Posted by NiMa
Title says it all.
With the recent Libra Colour being locked down at bootloader stage and us not being able to hack it even after days of trying, we see no real point to continue Quill OS development as it is likely that newer devices will not be more kind than the current ones when it comes to software hacking.
Why maintain an OS if you know the hardware it runs on is just slowly going to get obsolete?
I have fond memories of first booting Quill (then InkBox) off a Kobo Mini I got from Kijiji back in 2021. I was 15, didn't need to care about school too much and the pandemic somewhat helped. I would often wake up at 5 a.m. to do some programming before my Zoom classes would start at 9.
Life has sadly caught up with me over the years and it's not as easy anymore to get the motivation I need to work on this project. And the Libra Colour might be the final nail in the coffin for Quill OS.
As a desperate cry for help, if anyone has some background in embedded Linux/U-Boot stuff and would like to help, feel free to chime in by joining our Discord or Matrix servers.
Thanks to everyone that has come across the project over the years (a quarter-million views for a thread is pretty impressive for me) and that tested it on their device. I hope it will get a chance to be alive again one day. |
Hey,
First of all, thank you very much for keeping the development scene of our devices alive. This is such a great thing to see our old devices living their life with your help!
What would it take to maintain or even port InkBox to new devices?
I have long ago sold my old devices that could have run inkbox, but still have a Forma that i'd love to be ported.
Thanks,
Anghirrim