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,
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[Via LinuxOniPhone]
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
What a geeek!!!
Geek or not who cares!
If dev team
can get this up to the capabilities of the current Apple pile of Restrictive crap os millions of users will jump ship scrath off the crap half mangled fruit logo and enjoy a versatile supportive leap in technology.
Apple are slow! Why is it that you pay top dollar for a phone that does what a $49 prepaid can do!
I know many people, Myself included that would pay decent money to just wipe the crap Apple junk off my phone and PROUDLY install an OS developed by non capitalist humans!
Imsure if apples owner was on the outside like us the first thing he would do would be to jailbreak the phone or rewrite a more flexible versatile OS
Keep up the good work guys
cant wait to install linux down the track!
I would like to second what Steve said! The iphone is a decent phone but the restrictions in place with the apple os are downright ludicrous . i believe one should have the option of using an os of ones own choosing, once linux is working properly on the iphone i will b there to try it out:)
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