Linux Kernel Booting On the iPhone 115
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."
Linux drivers? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Linux drivers? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Linux drivers? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Why we ported Linux OS for iPhone? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Linux drivers? (Score:2, Insightful)
however Apple dislikes people actually using their hardware and therefore they try as hard as they can to break anything someone does to actually make Apple hardware do something useful
Re:I understand desktops, but I am not a phone guy (Score:2, Insightful)
And yes I run linux, and so does my wife's computer. and my neighbor's. and my
Purpose? (Score:1, Insightful)
And the purpose of it, is? To run a GTK or QTe UI on it? Wow!
Linux is a great core, but unfortunately the UI bits are crap. Even the G1 UI looks like a turd compared to the iPhone.
So as much as I like Linux on my boxes, I'll keep the OSX and the Apple UI on my iPhone. Thank you.
Re:now my gmail acount is gona blow up (Score:1, Insightful)
can somebody translate this to english?
Re:Jailbreaking is jailbreaking. (Score:3, Insightful)
It's NOT running Unix, it's running Apple's proprietary fork of BSD with no X support and a boatload of bizarre and arbitrary filesystem naming changes.
None of that means "it's not UNIX". If you think the iPhone isn't running UNIX then some of the UNIX versions I've used over the past 30 years would explode your brain like a watermelon full of liquid nitrogen.
I know the "in thing" these days is to suck Steve Jobs [...]
If you think I suck Steve Jobs, tell that to all the Apple Fanbois who regularly mod me down for being insufficiently loyal to the Steve. Just because you don't like a UNIX implementation doesn't make it "not UNIX".
Doofus.