Prerequisites

Blackberry OS 10

I’m not going to go too deep into listing the devices that support BBOS 10.

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BerryCore Required

BerryCore is essential for SSH functionality on your Blackberry Classic. If you haven’t installed it yet, head over to the BerryCore installation guide first.

Why BerryCore Matters

You may grab BerryCore from here and follow the installation. It’s well documented, and sw7ft is just a great guy. I truly believe his contribution is not recognized enough.

If you do not know him, let me explain his work. He sits there for hours, trying to provide the most diverse utilities from core POSIX-COMPLIANT CLI and TUI tools, packaging until he reached a point where he could run a Linux VM inside these more than 10-year-obsolete devices, getting X11 and even GCC 9 to run.

Now, if you also contributed in any way to BerryCore and I did not realize it, please let me know! I would love to mention your work too, because the possibilities really got to a point where even I got interested in the project again.

Now, Let’s Revive These Devices

Enough of the chit-chat; let’s start truly reviving these devices.