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1. iPhone Linux Demonstration Video

by planetbeing

1 year ago

A short narrated video demonstrating iPhone Linux, a port of the Linux operating system to the iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, and first-generation iPod touch platforms. This video was created with Cycorder, a video recorder app for the iPhone, with apologies for the blurriness.

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Nicolas Haunold 1 year ago

Great, Awesome!
Who Knows? 1 year ago

That is great news. Now lets port Android to the iPhone. :)
Zibri 1 year ago

Great accomplishment, planetbeing!
Pretty useless to the masses yet, but promising!

Hats off to you.
Bean 1 year ago

GREAT! cant wait for android on it!
keep it up
bbddb4[ZIE] 1 year ago

nice...I'm coming on the channel later today.
good job...lol is that ZIbri up there^. :D

lassina
Barry 1 year ago

nice work! can't wait to see future development's!
James Heyward 1 year ago

i want android os on my phone now
harry 1 year ago

that's AMAZING! go ahead to port android,dude! will let all my friends know
devin 1 year ago

That's hot. I can't wait to see what the dev community can do with it... nice job!
Melody 1 year ago

Ahh, really exciting!
chaosengine 1 year ago

Kick ass job.
Davidaron 1 year ago

now we're getting somewhere here! thanks for all your work!
Uğur Özyılmazel 1 year ago

rulez!
Miguel Angel Moro 1 year ago

You know when a gadget is woorthy enough when it has its own Doom, and its own linux...
Lars van Susteren 11 months ago

Is there something wrong with iPhone OS?
Alex Graham 11 months ago

was thinking the same thing myself
ε "epsy" 11 months ago

Well, Apple's OS is quite locked regarding third-party applications, for example.
Alex Graham 11 months ago

its nice to cater for the >5% that will be interested in this, but personally I would go for a smartphone that has a really bad operating system like the Nokia N95 and port a version of Linux for it. Improving a great phone/OS is difficult, improving on one as bad as the N95 would be easy and of far more use to there frustrated users.

I agree open source and having choices can only be good, but there are so many devices running awful operating systems that could be improved, the iPhone is the last place I would start
Kilian Koeltzsch 11 months ago

Awesome! That's all I can add.
You guys just rock.

@Lars van Susteren: Yes, as a matter of fact there are some things. I'll just list Bluetooth as number one.
And it's also a great deal of fun booting a second OS on iPhone.
Donnie Ramsey 11 months ago

Although this is cool news. It is very annoying to hear you making the smack sound by sucking on your teeth every 30 seconds.

fail
frank forrester 11 months ago

before the iphone was released and was just a mac rumor i created a gmail acount iphonelinux at gmail dot com ijust read this on slashdot and i exspect to start resiveing emails soon :-)
i new it would happen!
horay open sause boo microapple sause
gaSón 11 months ago

amazing news..
unfortunatly i hace a 2g ipod touch =(
Rick White 11 months ago

This is stunning. Since learning that the iPhone/iPod Touch run a modified version of BSD (like Mac OSX) I have been waiting for some sort of open source port of Linux. When Ubuntu announced their plans to port their OS to the ARM architecture I had visions of Ubuntu MID Edition on my iPod Touch. Not a week or two later and this shows up. I can't wait to see what happens. Now, off to play with the new bootloader!
WerM_RolenT 11 months ago

Круто - молодцы =)
За linux я бы купил iPhone =))))
FilmDude 11 months ago

cool.
Benjamin Reece 11 months ago

cool, but I have a question. Why would you buy a Mac Pro to run Linux on it? The whole point of an iPhone is the OSX (mobile). If I wanted to hack something, I would just buy a N95 or something with better hardware.
planetbeing 11 months ago

I bought one because I really liked the interface and the integration. I worked on iPhone Linux because I love to tinker, and it's nice to be able to change every piece of software running on the bare metal of the phone. I hack devices I love; I don't buy devices to hack.

Besides that, I think iPhone Linux has a future as an operating system that you can use alongside the existing iPhone OS. Like a feature or an app on Android, but it doesn't exist on the iPhone? Simply boot up the other OS. I also think this will let iPhone users see what the open source competition is offering, and perhaps choose to purchase it as their next phone.

Choice is good. Everybody wins.
JB Jacobs 11 months ago

y would you buy a mac and put linux on it? i don't understand
udey 11 months ago

Great ! Nice News !
transistorbass 11 months ago

Question: why?
will lainez 11 months ago

alright!! why u asked!!.. why not is the answer... it is through the tinkering and breaking down of barriers that we progress... closed monopolized software can not by nature be good software.. too few eyes looking at the code.. my two cents!! sorry!.. willl download and tinker on my ipod touch!!
ahiska4ever 11 months ago

hi ... i know this is a stupid question, but what is iPhone Linux
Evan Walsh 11 months ago

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
jimmac 11 months ago

Great stuff, good luck with the project.
Ben Jacob 11 months ago

sudo kill -0(GUI) //no this is not enough for a hacker, iPhone OS still has its beauty.
sudo kill -0(OS) // yey ! it worked for me my iPhone is not even a brick.
reboot > select f**king Linux in Console mode.
Linux Fan : Ya Good Job, I like this..... :D
Randal Dowd 11 months ago

Great, Now all we need is a iphone that runs Ubuntu!
dnf 11 months ago

заебись! так держать!
good work :)
Johan Larsson 9 months ago

I can't wait for Android on the iPhone. :D
Manx shearwater 9 months ago

Hi, you should get FramebufferUI (fbui) running so that you can do some graphics. It requires kernel 2.6.9. Just a thought.
kenjiru 7 months ago

This is great news! I can't wait for Android on the iPhone.
Matthew Millar 2 months ago

Thats sweet.

How were you sending the kernel to the iphone via USB? was the keyboard control, done using something simular to the USB Legacy module in BIOS?