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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. Con Kolivas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where did the Con Kolivas story go?

    1. Re:Con Kolivas by richie2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      That's a very good question. It has been yanked off the firehose page, too.

      Anyway, here's a link to TFA: http://apcmag.com/6735/interview_con_kolivas

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  2. Re:Disappointing by Marcion · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Disappointing because now you have turned an iPhone into a 2G version of the Nokia S60, why not just buy a 3G smartphone to start with and save all the trouble?

    I personally am waiting for the OpenMoko Neo1973, comes with Python and these other things by default or a just few taps away through its package manager.

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