@Cat@ponder.cat to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • edit-21 month agoAll kindles can now be jailbroken, thanks to new jailbreak method.kindlemodding.orgmessage-square117fedilinkarrow-up1853arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1851arrow-down1external-linkAll kindles can now be jailbroken, thanks to new jailbreak method.kindlemodding.org@Cat@ponder.cat to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • edit-21 month agomessage-square117fedilinkfile-text
WinterBreak is a jailbreak which was released on New Year’s Day 2025 by HackerDude It is based on Mesquito
minus-square@fossphi@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish27•1 month agoThey come with a Linux based OS pre installed. Jailbreaking allows you to effectively become root and gives you a lot more freedom to change stuff. TLDR: yes
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoSo theoretically I could replace the entire filesystem with a distro of choice?
minus-square@fossphi@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish19•edit-21 month agoTheoretically, yes. But I’m not sure if it’s gonna be smooth sailing. You would probably need a custom kernel which supports the kindle hardware. I don’t know if there is any project which already packages/distributes the kindle kernel
They come with a Linux based OS pre installed. Jailbreaking allows you to effectively become root and gives you a lot more freedom to change stuff.
TLDR: yes
So theoretically I could replace the entire filesystem with a distro of choice?
Theoretically, yes. But I’m not sure if it’s gonna be smooth sailing. You would probably need a custom kernel which supports the kindle hardware. I don’t know if there is any project which already packages/distributes the kindle kernel