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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 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.

  2. 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!

  3. 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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