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Kindle Powered by Linux
Nov 20, 2007, 17 :30 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (7466 reads)

(Other stories by Robert Love)

"My Amazon Kindle is not yet here, but I came across the device's source code notice, which reveals the book reader's OS: The Amazon Kindle is powered by Linux, specifically a 2.6.10 kernel and an assortment of familiar user-space bits1.

"On initial study, nothing particularly brow-raising jumps out among the kernel changes: some driver modifications, XIP on MTD, a backport of kstrdup and kzalloc, squashfs, Samsung's RFS, and a procfs interface for forcing the reset of TCP connections..."

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But I am sure there won't be a Linux ...   Yeah right !   
linux lover
Nov 20, 2007, 20:34:51
 
The machine seems to be all about consum ...   DMR and lockin   
hey
Nov 20, 2007, 22:06:09
 
I looked at the Kindle.  Then I went bac ...   Try a better one -- Iliad   
Ken Jennings
Nov 20, 2007, 22:54:32
 
$400 for the reader and $10 for the book ...   All these readers are too expensive.   
Jimmy the Geek
Nov 24, 2007, 06:42:52
 
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