We knew this day would eventually come, but somehow we're still misting up a little -- Linux has been ported to the iPhone and iPod touch. Dev Team member planetbeing is the mastermind in charge of bringing everyone's favorite open-source OS to Apple's handhelds, and while it's a little rough around the edges (read: no touchscreen drivers, sound, or WiFi / cell radio support), it's definitely the first step on the road to hacking nirvana. The team is hard at work, and it even sounds like they're thinking about porting Android in the near future (!), so hit the read link to try it out and lend a hand if you can -- or just head on past the break for a quick vid of the port in all its text-scrolling glory.
Link: Linux on iPhone
Download: iPhone Linux Demo
Video: iPhone Linux Demo video
News source: Engadget
Me to, very much work in progress.
So . . . they do illegal things? I'm not sure what you mean by "Apple never cares about legality."
Nah. I think it is more of the reverse-engineering bit of things. This kind of thing can open up a whole can of worms and Apple can throw alot of legal crap by enabling the thing to load a rather unrestricted version of linux on it.
You always could.
Last edited by plastikaa on 30 Nov 2008 - 02:51
You are probably right. I think the one thing they should consider is that both the iPhone OS and Mac OS X is based on a variant of Unix so in retrospect they are saying that their own OS isn't allowed either. In a way anyways.
why do you need windows mobile when you have iphone's OS :s
The terminal is quite powerful, actually, for those who know what they're doing.
In my opinion
Hehe, clever.
Alot of people wont bother with this. But to the programmer who did it.. good innovation; theres probably alot you could use it for, but again, mainstream consumers wont bother.
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