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iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python, Vim

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-enough-memory-for-emacs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After the first Hello World application, hacker NerveGas and the people at #iphone-shell have built Apache, Python and other Open Source apps for the iPhone using NightWatch's toolchain. Yes, your iPhone can now be a Web Server and do all sort of 1337 things. This also means that third-party applications for iPhone will happen no matter what. People, iPhone Doom could be just around the corner." It's fairly thin on information but if true, this will lead to good things. Like hopefully permission from apple.

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  1. Disappointing by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

    Really disappointing, why couldn't we have had a link to the story on a server running on an iPhone? Then maybe a video of it catching fire.

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    1. Re:Disappointing by vivaoporto · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually, we could mimic the success of Will it blend and create its counterpart, Will it melt (tm), displaying different pieces of machinery running a webserver while being slashdotted. Guaranteed laughter for all family!

    2. Re:Disappointing by alienmole · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's what it used to be like, back in the good old days (i.e., 1999). We even had links to web servers running on PIC chips, which makes an iPhone look like a ridiculously oversized muscle car by comparison. But for some reason people are less willing to roast their iPhones than a PIC chip and a couple of resistors.

      I put it down to the kids these days, they're just not as adventurous as when I was a lad (i.e., 1999) and used to walk to work in the snow, uphill, both ways, with only a roasting Slashdotted PIC-based webserver for warmth.

    3. Re:Disappointing by Com2Kid · · Score: 3, Funny

      Cell phones each have a unique identifier. Unless you have a prepaid account and paid for your iPhone with cash, this unique identifier is easily traced to your credit card + billing address.

      Thus, you win the Worst Pirating Idea EVER award.

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    4. Re:Disappointing by alienmole · · Score: 2, Funny

      Please don't confuse any "webserver" with a potentially full-blow apache.
      Quite right, when Apache hits "full-blow" it can melt servers that are much bigger than an iPhone.
  2. Question by weaponx86 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will it blend...a web server / development platform / gaming system? Yes.

  3. Redundancy by rriven · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can just see it now, your boss makes everyone in the company with an iPhone run a distributed backup web server in case 365 Main Datacenter http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/ 24/2210255 Goes down again.

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  4. I'm already in hiding. by Claws+Of+Doom · · Score: 2, Funny

    Erm. Anyone been able to make a phonecall on one of these yet? Didn't you all cancel your call agreements?

    Apologies.

  5. Apple be praised! by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's fairly thin on information but if true, this will lead to good things. Like hopefully permission from Apple.

    Ah, the blind faith of a True Believer. I suppose the crippled nature of the device is a test, and by defeating it you are found worthy in Jobs' eyes? And the next time you plug it into iTunes, instead of silently patching these "flaws", it will release everyone's phone from bondage!

  6. iPhone Doom? by martyb · · Score: 3, Funny
    FTFS:

    People, iPhone Doom could be just around the corner.

    Pshaw!! *I* am waiting for iDuke iNuke'm iForever! <grin>

  7. Vim? Phhtttt by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Funny

    Call me when it can run Emacs.

    Oh... Only 8Gb RAM. Never mind.

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    1. Re:Vim? Phhtttt by Mab_Mass · · Score: 2, Funny

      Call me when it can run Emacs

      It can, but until they can put a Ctrl key on the phone, it is useless.

  8. imagine by thatskinnyguy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?

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  9. Overlooked feature by ijustam · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know about anyone else, but one of the most useful features on my iPod (and I assume iPhone) is the shiny chrome backing. It's an iPod, it's a phone, an internet communications device, and a mirror!

  10. Just what I needed! by oneandoneis2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    My all-time favourite text editor, with its plethora of keyboard shortcuts, on a device with no keyboard!

    How have I lived so long without one?

    When they come out in the UK, I'll buy an iPhone for sure now!

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  11. So now an iPhone can hack another iPhone by FunkyELF · · Score: 1, Funny

    Since apache is running on an iPhone now, it could host that iPhone exploit discussed earlier.

  12. Yeah, by th3rmite · · Score: 2, Funny

    but can it run linux?

  13. Re:hope by simong · · Score: 2, Funny

    MAME in 10...9...8...

  14. More than one way... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dear Sir,

    I have no idea why I would have 80 of these port things you keep talking about. It must have been damaged in shipping, as there was no physical damage to the phone when sent. In any event, please let me know when the phone will be returned fully repaired as per your warranty.

    Just to speed the process along, I've cc'd a few people on my email who may also be interested. Thanks for your help.

    Signed,
    Customer

    cc. State Attorney General
              State consumer protection agency
              Credit Card company

  15. too bad cell phone internets are crap by qqaz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now, in addition to downloading full, non-mobile optimized versions websites (THE REAL INTERNET!!! WITH FLASH!!!) on your cell phone's horrible 9600baud-esque internet connection, you can host your own sites that will only take 2 hours to download!

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  16. Paris Hilton? by twoboxen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good gravy. When did the iPhone become the Paris Hilton of gadgets? I don't want to hear about it every day, either. Just think back... how many "iPhone spotted at _____" stories have their been in the past 9 months?
    Pretty soon we'll be seeing the iPhone being locked up and sent to rehab to get a fully functional SDK. Or maybe it will be hanging out with OLPC (Lohan).
    Unavoidable and becoming just as painful....

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  17. Re:I work for Apple. This is all wrong. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    At last the debate is settled...
    Apache beat IIS
    Python beat Ruby
    VI(m) beat Emacs

    I am finally going to get a good nights sleep...

  18. Re:AIM instead of SMS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Effort to look up AT&T's iPhone plan? Trivial.

    To post your conspiracy theory about it? Less then trivial.

    The number of eyeball seconds wasted looking over your theorizing? Substantial.

    USE THE TUBES!

  19. AT&T doing what with the who now? by SuperKendall · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think AT&T is going to force Apple...

    Just who do you think has the power in this relationship? I'll give you a hint, the name starts with "A" all right but doesn't end with "T"!

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  20. Re:s/permission/official blessing/ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    After doing that they'll be your xfriends

  21. What about SSH? by argent · · Score: 3, Funny

    SSH is easy. You can run SSH on *Windows* for god's sake.