It was only a matter of time before this happened — A hacker by the name of Jesse Vincent has successfully been able to get Amazon’s Kindle 2 to run Ubuntu 9.04.

Now you may say, who cares it’s just an eBook reader, but perhaps this will unlock some Kindle 2 functionality that no one knew about before. Exactly what, you ask? Well, your guess is as good as mine at this point.

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