iPhone finally running Linux




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Lately iPhone owners who enjoy hacking or jailbreaking their iPhones have had plenty of different ways to do it. We are astonished to find out that the iPhone has now be able to run Linux.

The Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported the Apple’s iPhone, iPhone 3G as well as the first generation iPod Touch. As with all first advancements this is still just a rough draft of the port. Even though the alternate operating system is running on the iPhone, many drivers are missing.

So far the development team has managed to get a serial driver, frame buffer driver, serial over USB driver and Interrupts and MMU Clock.  They also have read-only support for the NAND, but it has not been ported over yet. In the future we will see support for sound, accelerometer, baseband support, touchscreen, write support for the NAND and wireless networking,

http://www.vimeo.com/2373142

[Via LinuxOniPhone]

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2 Responses to “iPhone finally running Linux”

  1. Alex says:

    awesome! when i had my touch i wanted to try and put linux on it – although currently it seems very limited to what you can do

  2. Hello says:

    What a geeek!!!


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