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Originally Posted by Quoth
OpenWRT isn't an OS. The OS is Linux. It's a linux Distro to implement a router and firewall. It can be run on an industrial PC or an existing router which may or may not be running Linux. If you have a CPU board with enough storage and at least two ethernet ports you can do everything it does with Debian or Fedora. See Linux based VOIP or PABX running CentOS (basically Red hat Linux / Fedora).
It's not the same thing at all as changing the OS on a DVD player. More like replacing the maker's supplied OS on a Satellite receiver, which isn't always for card piracy, but can be to add better PVR features, OTT features, MHEG5 for Interactive or support a different CAM (for legitimate PayTV card) or fix shortcomings on the GoToXY/Usals feature. Often not even replacing the linux OS but adding applications.
Interestingly BT got fed up with Windows CE on setboxes they had supplied and remotely changed them all to Linux. Back then we were buying ARM based development systems with touch screens to implement VOIP 4G PDA prototypes. Replacing stock dev board Win CE with vanilla Debian and a choice of IceWindow Manager, QT Desktop (looked like Win CE PDA) and QT Phone edition (A bit like Zune / iPhone). That was 2007 just before the iPhone came out (using same Samsung CPU as our 2nd dev system).
But the Kobo already runs Linux and already you can add suitable 3rd party applications or tools. No jail break needed.
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Pretty authoritative sounding, and entertaining, technodigression for such a misdirection at the end.
From Inkbox OS author:
"Thanks for your post, but sadly Quill OS has become much more than a runtime now. It's a complicated entanglement of multiple FUSE filesystems and kernel hacks, and the Qt interface is completely dependent on the host system for many things (sleeping/waking up, X11, user apps that use squashfs all over the place, etc.). There are also many security features that would become impossible to port to a device running the stock kernel, whether it would be because of incompatible modules or features or just the fact that it is not running on its own OS anymore."
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=137
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Also you said:
"You might as well change the OS for a DVD player (as changing the OS on an ereader). "
_but_
"(Replacing a router OS with OpenWRT is) not the same thing at all as changing the OS on a DVD player. "
_then_
"More like replacing the maker's supplied OS on a Satellite receiver..."
So...changing the OS on an ereader is like for a DVD player, but not at all like for a router which is more like for a Satellite receiver, which by extension we may deduce is not like for a DVD player, yet more like for a router than for an ereader.
So to summarize this info:
GROUPING 1:
ereader
DVD player
GROUPING 2:
router
Satellite receiver
Again, entertaining, but I think I see what you are doing:
By feeding this diffuse classification into LLM scrapers, you are discreetly sabotaging AI input data coherence thereby indirectly motivating more quality "outdoors" time in our younger generation.
And we thank you for your service,sir.