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.
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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Interesting that out of all of the web links about Linux on the iPhone none (and I repeat NONE) mention the fact that hello what do you think the iPhone OS is? It's a port of Debian just like OS X on the Mac. Granted this is such a customized version of debian linux that most would not recognize it nonetheless it is truly Linux.
you are an idiot, os x is bsd