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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."

3 of 115 comments (clear)

  1. Iphones are for Italians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Iphones are only for Italians and other tomato-eating, Mexican-speaking superheros who steal my paperclips when I am not looking at them. Bad

  2. all the cost of an iPhone... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    All the cost of an iPhone with all the usability of Linux.

    Linux: achieving nothing new since 1990.

  3. Re:Apple's response by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple didn't do that... Linux does it on its own. It is the new direction of Linux: 'Just Doesn't Work'