Hackers can crack the Kindle e-book and run Ubuntu

Linux systems are open-source and easy-to-use. Recently, a hacker named JesseVincent cracked Amazon's Kindle2 e-reader at the FooCamp competition, it also shows how to run the Ubuntu9.04 system on it. JesseVincent said that in addition to being a popular e-book reader, Kindle can also be used as a Linux building block platform, at first, he just used a USB network to perform some simple debugging and PDF operations on Amazon's e-reader.

Linux systems are open-source and easy-to-use. Recently, a hacker named Jesse Vincent cracked Amazon's Kindle 2 e-reader at the Foo Camp competition, it also shows how to run the Ubuntu 9.04 system on it.

Jesse Vincent said that in addition to being a popular e-book reader, Kindle can also be used as a Linux building block platform, at first, he just used a USB network to perform some simple debugging and PDF conversion on Amazon's e-reader, after several nights of hard work, he finally achieved stable running of the Ubuntu 9.04 Environment on this platform.