Thursday, January 3. 2008Howto install Ubuntu on the Amazon KindleI've prepared a uni-step guide to answer the question on all our minds since the Kindle first launched. How well can it run Linux? I thought Lucy Snyder would beat me to it, she's always writing great Linux install guides. Last night , at around 5am I saw my first terminal prompt and I knew I'd won. Sure it crashes, but only on the rare occasion that it actually boots so it's not really a problem. Anyways, here is the guide … 
In approximately 5 hours of kernel compiling you'll be staring at your very own cursor on a bash shell. Your keyboard won't work, but that doesn't matter cause none of the commands work anyway. It does have a rocking version of emacs however. The Guide
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You cheeky bollocks! I love it. If I wasn't on my shockingly feature-limited iPhone, I'd surely Digg this guide.
Ive never thought you can turn Kindle into an UMPC. Fantastic!
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