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By Chris Duckett, Builder AU
Posted on ZDNet News: Dec 01, 2008 7:39:18 AM

A new front has opened in the ongoing arms race between Apple and iPhone hackers, with one hacker group making the iPhone boot with a Linux 2.6 kernel.

The announcement of the successful kernel porting was made on the Linux on the iPhone blog, complete with instructions and source code.

Although a bootloader, kernel and a Busybox terminal are able to be loaded - many features of the iPhone remain unimplemented: touch screen, sound, accelerometer, and networking. Input to the terminal must be made via a USB interface from another device that the iPhone is attached to (humorously summed up by Geek Hero Comic).

The group that ported the kernel is derived from the iPhone DevTeam group which has been responsible for jailbreaking previous iPhone software.

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We all should care....
We should all care simply because this is an alternative to the very limited proprietary OS that Apple uses. Now, I'm not saying that they didn't do a good job with the iPhone OS; however why do they... (Read the rest)
Posted by: EdNetman Posted on: 12/03/08 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Why should anyone care?  croberts | 12/01/08
RE: Why should anyone care?  richdave | 12/01/08
We all should care....  EdNetman | 12/03/08
RE: Hackers boot Linux on iPhone  Loverock Davidson | 12/01/08
Eradicating MacOS...  PsyBeats | 12/01/08
RE: Hackers boot Linux on iPhone  cashaww | 12/01/08
A great way to fix Apple bugs...  progon | 12/01/08
But....  todbran@... | 12/01/08
Cut and Paste  stevejg61 | 12/01/08
I could care less.....  profsmichael@... | 12/01/08
Because iPhone uses a closed system  Michael Kelly | 12/01/08
RE: Hackers boot Linux on iPhone  ealgar | 12/01/08
RE: Hackers boot Linux on iPhone  ampers@... | 12/01/08
To those dinosaurs that ask "Why?"  rarsa | 12/01/08
Maybe, but I think it's more along the lines of...  olePigeon | 12/01/08

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