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Linux Kernel Booting On the iPhone

Posted by Soulskill on from the there's-no-iphone-in-team dept.

mhm was one of many readers to note that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to the iPhone. "Planetbeing, one of the iPhone devteam members, has been working on porting Linux to the iPhone (along with a custom bootloader called OpeniBoot). Today they managed to boot the kernel! Video showing the boot process has been posted. Instructions and binaries are available on the project blog."

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  1. This is the only thing that could make me buy it by Rikiji7 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If android and a mobile-hacked debian can use every single piece of hardware of it i will get one soon.

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  2. Re:Cool. by pandrijeczko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...but so locked down to the point of being programmer unfriendly?

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    Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
  3. Re:Android. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have a biiig question. i have windows and ubuntu, can i still install linux on the iphone? i suspect that files you published are only for mac osx

    This isn't as stupid as it sounds (though one hopes they RTFA'd.) I recall trying to put Linux on my Nintendo DS, only to find that installing it (without using additional hardware) required... Windows. I'm not sure if that situation has changed since, but it was a major disappointment and WTF at the time.

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