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Originally Posted by kindler8
Hi everyone,
First of all, thank you for your efforts with the Kindles in this forum.
I'm a long time lurker who just registered to ask some questions on the same topic.
I bought a Kindle KT3 (8th gen), hoping I could use it for a little more than just reading books as I saw some people posting videos of jailbroken kindles running debian. Sadly those were not KT3s and when I found out that in order to jailbreak the KT3 I shouldn't have connected to the internet, it was already too late. My firmware is already a version that is not compatible with the jailbreak.
My goal is to be able to use my KT3 as a Linux machine either by:
- Running linux natively
- Running a VNC client that connects to a Linux machine.
All the while keeping the KT3 original software (if possible).
Would you know if these goals are feasible on KT3 and how could I achieve them? I suppose the first step would be to jailbreak it through the serial port?
Thanks!
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Is there any reason at all that you can think of to return it for exchange?
The KT3 (as are all grayscale Kindles) IS a Linux machine and Linux is running natively (on the bare hardware).
It is the color display Kindles that run Android.
I think we have both a VNC server and client posted here.
But even if we do, I don't recall any reports of someone running it on a KT3. So you will have some ground breaking to do.
