[ale] The very closed LeapPad uses very Free Software

[Raj Wurttemberg]

I have to agree with you. I have Triplets... so I bought three of them.  I
am *not* happy.  We'll be selling them at the next consignment sale and
buying three Amazon Kindle Fire tablets. :p

Oh.. You can start them in a "recovery" mode of some sort.... Hold down both
volume buttons and turn the LeapPad on.

-=Raj=-


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Richard
Bronosky
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 11:23 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: [ale] The very closed LeapPad uses very Free Software

My wife insisted on buying a couple of these LeapPads for the kids
Christmas. (I wanted to buy some Android tablets) In preparation I wanted to
start converting the home movies that they love watching. I contacted
LeapFrog because I could find no info on the supported formats. Well, it
turns out that they only let the device play movies that they sell you. We
know all the reasons for this and it ought to piss us all off.

Well, I saw that they are using GPL software so I request a copy of the
source. It's every enlightening as to what software drives this thing. I
don't think it gets me any closer to putting home movies on these things,
but it is good to know what it is capable of. The goodies include those
listed below.