On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati
<renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
On Tuesday 30 Oct 2012 08:31 my mailbox was graced by a message from Alejandro
López who wrote:
> > Jailbreaking tablets has been ruled illegal.
> >
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194954
> > How long before we are banned by law from installing Linux on a computer
> > that was originally sold with Windows ?
> Who needs to jailbreak a phone with Android or linux such as de N900? Don't
> buy Apple and you'll have no problem.
Ooh! I bought one of those 4 years ago.
It was a cheap Chinese knockoff, low-end hardware even for the day. It was running a stripped-down version of Ubuntu 8 for ARM.
It was slow, but it worked! A Linux e-reader! And it did many other things too. Like play games, browse the web and when properly coaxed even play videos.
The problem is that the battery no longer holds a charge, and the charger broke. So it's pretty much a brick now. But I loved it while it lasted!
Cheers,
Ron.
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