Cat@ponder.cat to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · edit-25 days agoAll kindles can now be jailbroken, thanks to new jailbreak method.kindlemodding.orgexternal-linkmessage-square113fedilinkarrow-up1668arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1667arrow-down1external-linkAll kindles can now be jailbroken, thanks to new jailbreak method.kindlemodding.orgCat@ponder.cat to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · edit-25 days agomessage-square113fedilinkfile-text
WinterBreak is a jailbreak which was released on New Year’s Day 2025 by HackerDude It is based on Mesquito
minus-squarefossphi@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·5 days 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🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·5 days agoSo theoretically I could replace the entire filesystem with a distro of choice?
minus-squarefossphi@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-25 days 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