On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:21:22 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > On 04/07/2012 07:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:12:45 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> >>> Having a bad track record of not taking care of "dead tree" books, I >>> am looking to buy an electronic book reader. >> >> (...) >> >> I'm following very closely the ongoing movements of Kobo¹ and Vivaldi².
(...) > Thanks! I am more oriented towards the Kobo, since it is an ebook reader > specifically. The promise of an open platform seems alluring. > > Do you know if it runs GNU/Linux or whether I'll be able to install it? > Seems perfect, reasonably priced too, thanks. Mmm... according to Wikipedia¹, Kobo e-Readers run "Linux" (no additional info is given) and according to their spcecs sheet², they're based on SoC, Freescale processor, thus ARM based³. I'm not sure how feasible would be installing a different OS on such devices, but neither forget about guarantee which sure will be lost after replacing the OS with something else. > Sorry I didn't mark my post OT, I wasn't sure if it was, since it kind > of involves Debian. No prob. I just tagged it as OT just because it was not directly related to Debian, but regardless related or not I find it an interesting subject :-) ¹http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_readers#Electronic-paper_displays ²http://www.kobobooks.com/touch_tech ³http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.MX#i.MX50_family Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jlsfke$f2u$1...@dough.gmane.org
