<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Amazon will not warrantee a Kindle Fire HD of you become root. But, they sell books for the Kindle Fire that tell how, exactly to do it. There are also lots of web sites with instructions for becoming root in the Kindle Fire and some even tell how you can undo the process and they claim you can thus restore the warrantee. Since it is only warranted for one year, it doesn't seem to be a big problem for the user. <div><br></div><div>Caryl<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 07:23:22 -0400<br>From: georgejhunt@gmail.com<br>To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-gang@lists.laptop.org; devel@lists.laptop.org<br>Subject: [support-gang] Sugar on a $100 tablet!<br><br><div dir="ltr">There's a complex "Sugar on Android" solution. At this point, it's only for hackers. But it just might help us achieve the $100 Sugar machine.<div><br></div><div>Refer to <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2151092" target="_blank">http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2151092</a>.<div> <br></div><div>The idea is to run a fedora arm image compiled to run under android, in the background. This background task would feed, and receive, display and keystroke communications, to and from an android version of vnc, both of these tasks running on the same tablet. (vnc = Virtual Network Computing -- google it if unfamiliar)</div> <div><br></div><div>I don't know if it will be illegal for any of us to do this to a $150 XO tablet, because under the Digital Melinium Copyright Act (DCMA) the manufacturer must specifically permit rooting a tablet. The terms of use included with the XO Tablet do not appear to authorize rooting of the hardware, although they do acknowledge open-source components within the product. These open source components might somewhat limit the locked-downness.</div> <div><br></div><div>But google has said it is fine to root the Nexus, and there are $100 Allwinner tablets to which one can legally add software. </div><div><br></div><div>So there are plenty of options, for us hackers who believe in Sugar. </div> <div><br></div><div>I'm inclined to play with the nexus, because there's so much information available on how to add software. Then later I can try it with a $100 machine.</div><div><br></div><div>But there's a lot of tinkering/hacking to do before we can evaluate what the user experience might be.</div> <div><br></div><div>I'm looking forward to the challenge,</div></div><div><br></div><div>George</div></div> <br>_______________________________________________ support-gang mailing list support-gang@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang</div></div> </div></body> </html>