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iPhone Dev Team successfully boots Linux on iPhone
AppleInsider — By Aidan Malley Published: 07:45 PM EST A milestone has been reached in iPhone firmware modification on Friday with the first alternative operating system for the hardware, Linux, now running on the device. The first build created by Dev Team is now running on iPhone, iPhone 3G, and the original iPod touch in what's considered a "draft" version. The software primarily includes the main Linux 2.6 kernel as well as rudimentary graphics, serial, and other functional drivers that are just enough to get a command line running when input is sent over the USB interface; the accelerometer, audio, networking and even the touchscreen have yet to receive ...

iPhone Linux
MAKE Magazine: hacks — The iPhone dev team, hard at work as usual, announced a successful iPhone Linux port today. It's still at a very early stage, but the kernel boots on first and second generation iPhones and the first generation iPod touch. A framebuffer driver and a working Busybox installation point to an exciting open source future: What we have: - Framebuffer driver - Serial driver - Serial over USB driver - Interrupts, MMU, clock, etc. What we have in openiboot (but hasn't been ported yet): - Read-only support for the NAND What we don't have ...

Linux on iPhone: Whoa!
CrunchGear — iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo. After reverse engineering the original kernel, some hackers have gotten their own version of Linux to run on the iPhone, proving that the first gen iPhone will live on as a hacker and hobbyists tool for a decade. ...

iPhone Linux
MAKE Magazine — The iPhone dev team, hard at work as usual, announced a successful iPhone Linux port today. It's still at a very early stage, but the kernel boots on first and second generation iPhones and the first generation iPod touch. A framebuffer driver and a working Busybox installation point to an exciting open source future: What we have: - Framebuffer driver - Serial driver - Serial over USB driver - Interrupts, MMU, clock, etc. What we have in openiboot (but hasn't been ported yet): - Read-only support for the NAND What we don't have ...

Linux Working iPhone?
Mobilewhack.com — It looks like some restless hackers have managed to install Linux on an iPhone. We’ve seen someone claim he had installed Windows Mobile on an iPhone before and I guess it was a matter of time only for someone to wonder if Linux would work. Here’s what’s working on the Linux iPhone and what isn’t: - Framebuffer driver - Serial driver - Serial over USB driver - Interrupts, MMU, clock, etc. What we have in openiboot (but hasn’t been ported yet): - Read-only support for the NAND What we don’t have (yet!): - Write support for the NAND - Wireless networking - Touchscreen - Sound - Accelerometer - Baseband support Would you trade ...

Linux Running on iPhone May Open the Door to Android [IPhone]
Gizmodo — Here you have it. Linux running on the iPhone. Yes, it's only the first port, but it's the iPhone running the Linux OS, controlled with a USB keyboard running off the iPhone multi-purpose port thanks to the reverser engineering of Apple's hardware drivers by iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing. And while it is still limited and doen't have support for many things, this work opens the door to a much more interesting thing than just a character-based terminal: Google's Android running on the iPhone hardware. Just imagine that. Google taking the smartphone war directly into Apple territory. Sure, most people would not care about this, but the ...

Linux for iPhone May Open the Door to Android iPhone [IPhone]
Gizmodo — Here you have it. Linux running on the iPhone. Yes, it's only the first port, but it's the iPhone running the Linux OS, controlled with a USB keyboard running off the iPhone multi-purpose port thanks to the reverser engineering of Apple's hardware drivers by iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing. And while it is still limited and doen't have support for many things, this work opens the door to a much more interesting thing than just a character-based terminal: Google's Android running on the iPhone hardware. Just imagine that. Google taking the smartphone war directly into Apple territory. Sure, most people would not care about this, but the ...

Working Linux on iPhone
Gizmos for Geeks — In another hardware conquest for the Linux platform, it has been successfully ported to the iPhone. While the current version is not much more than a working, beta version, it does prove that a Linux iPhone is a viable proposition. As Gizmodo points out in the headline of their article, this may be the start of an Android iPhone. Oh, the irony is fantastic. For much more geeky details, take a look at the blog, and/or the video. Bookmark/e-Mail

Ya lograron hacer funcionar Linux en el iPhone
Celularis — Después de mucha ingeniería inversa con el kernel original, algunos fans del iPhone y de Linux acaban de anunciar que el kernel 2.6 de Linux ha sido portado al iPhone y al iPod Touch satisfactoriamente. Como se puede ver en el video, luego del dualboot corren un kernel estable de linux en el iPhone pero, como indican en el sitio, todavía no logran hacer funcionar el celular, el WiFi, la pantalla táctil y otras cosas. El primer gran paso ya está dado, así que seguramente en algunas semanas lograrán un equipo funcional. El iPhoneLinux ya se puede descargar y las instrucciones son ...

Get iPhone to run the Linux OS
TechChee.com, shop online for gadget, gizmo and hot tech stuff — I used to be a big fan of Linux, although the recent years that I’ve been more on Windows due to some development work that I’ve been involved need me to be on Windows. But Linux is still my preferred server platform. And now if you’re also a big fan of Linux and you wish to get your iPhone to run the Linux OS, it’s now been made possible by the iPhone Dev Team. The iPhone Dev Team member, planetbeing has reverse engineered the Apple’s hardware drivers, making it possible to run Linux OS on the iPhone. And it can be controlled with a USB keyboard running off the iPhone’s ...

iPhone goes open-source - Linux ported to iPhone!
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — What’s this? An iPhone running on the Linux operating system? It was only a matter of time. The most closed and controlled mobile development platform has been hacked to run open-source Linux-code! And you thought iPhone Dev Team members were just working to unlock the iPhone 3G baseband firmware… iPhone Dev Team hacker planetbeing has announced on his blog that he and his team of intrepid iPhone developers have successfully reverse-engineered the iPhone’s hardware drivers, allowing them to boot the open-source Linux operating system on an iPhone. Booting Linux on the iPhone required that the team come up ...

Ya se puede correr Linux en el iPhone
Gizmología — Increíble pero cierto, después de un tiempo de desarrollo, fue exitosamente portado el Kernel 2.6 de Linux para que pueda correr sobre la terminal móvil más famosa del mundo: el iPhone. El sistema operativo utiliza OpenBoot para iniciar sobre el OS que desees. Si ...

Linux on the iPhone
Wired: Gadget Lab — From the department of "Because We Can" comes Linux on the iPhone. Don't get too excited -- you won't be running Ubuntu or Google's Android OS on your iPhone any time soon (even if you wanted to). Here it is in action:         Right now, as you can see, this is strictly a proof of concept -- there's no actual interaction with any of the iPhone's input methods. No touch screen, no nothing. Instead, the iPhone runs a USB client which lets you type in commands from another computer via the dock connector. Still, it's a good start, and once somebody ...

See Linux Running on the iPhone
Today @ PC World — Could Google's Android operating system make its way to the iPhone, too? Maybe.