iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python, Vim

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.

Comments

Disappointing

[niceone]

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.

Re:Disappointing

[vivaoporto]

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!

Re:Disappointing

[alienmole]

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.

Re:Disappointing

[Com2Kid]

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.

Question

[weaponx86]

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

Apple be praised!

[0xdeadbeef]

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!

iPhone Doom?

[martyb]

FTFS:

People, iPhone Doom could be just around the corner.

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

Vim? Phhtttt

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Call me when it can run Emacs.

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

Just what I needed!

[oneandoneis2]

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!

Paris Hilton?

[twoboxen]

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....

Re:I work for Apple. This is all wrong.

[Anonymous Coward]

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...

What about SSH?

[argent]

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