[Emir S.]

Uhhm, this has been posted under user posted News section a day or two ago. Let's not take credit for someone else's findings please, AppleChick.

As far as Linux kernel on iPhone, this is great as it puts us quite a few steps closer to UME or android dualboot as well as custom made light Linux distros. This also can lead to WinMo on the iPhone as well.
To me, the iPhone was always more about the hardware then software as iPhone OS is seriously lacking in terms or productivity.

[smirkis]

how would android on the iphone even work, they use a actual keyboard, we use touchscreen. even if we got it to load, it would have to be fully redone. and all software that gets released regularly for android G1 wouldn't even work for us because of hardware issues unless some how they can set a program to redirect specific software requests for like keyboard to digital keyboard touch screen. i see so many things wrong with that

[cricketlang]

That is seriously out of control. Leave it to the Dev Team to blow my mind once again.

[RicardoFelix]

This is damn awesome.

[iPh0wned]

stupid.... its like putting a custom engine into a ferrari. granted apple is being a ***** holding out on us with stuff like MMS, copy/paste, and so on, but all these things can be done with jailbreaking.

im sure all that time put into getting Linux on the iphone couldve been put to setting up an integrated copy paste functionality....

[reznor9]

Originally Posted by smirkis

how would android on the iphone even work, they use a actual keyboard, we use touchscreen. even if we got it to load, it would have to be fully redone. and all software that gets released regularly for android G1 wouldn't even work for us because of hardware issues unless some how they can set a program to redirect specific software requests for like keyboard to digital keyboard touch screen. i see so many things wrong with that

Im pretty sure that by the time we reach that road, the google android OS will be available and distributed in more handsets, and Im sure one will have a touchscreen keyboard. The G1 is just the first android phone.. and being made by HTC, its pretty much a more advanced tmobile wing. Hopefully other manufactures like LG and Nokia will jump on this and create an actual phone more deserving and desirable than the bulky G1.

[RicardoFelix]

This is on my iphone, its not what you expect, its not as good as the ipod video version.

Its beta so yeah, keep upaded on here: blog.iphone-dev.org

[kaitlyn2004]

I would load *ANY* other OS on my iphone, just so I could get turn-by-turn navigation!!!

[Tuna_Oddfellow]

this will mean far more options for the jailbrake community. The devteam has no power over Apple's timelines to do things like copy paste.

What the devteam does is create ways for our hand held personal computer to be far more advanced than apple will allow us to be.

[steverae]

This is great news.... it means that we may (like people have said) have an alternative to iphoneOS.

God Devteam.

[zatpgw]

I can't wait to put Windows Mobile on my iPhone!



































J/k.

[Chase817]

This is awesome.

[WillyDavidK]

Originally Posted by ihawk0789

when they said linux i thought they meant a linux distro like slax able to work on the iphone

They are running a BusyBox implementation, and almost all of the popular linux distros around are using one of 3 GUIs - KDE, Gnome, or Xfce. None of these would work on the iPhone at this point, not to mention this is very early and they haven't yet reverse-engineered the touchscreen control. The point is that the linux kernel is running successfully on its own on the iPhone.

Originally Posted by smirkis

how would android on the iphone even work, they use a actual keyboard, we use touchscreen. even if we got it to load, it would have to be fully redone. and all software that gets released regularly for android G1 wouldn't even work for us because of hardware issues unless some how they can set a program to redirect specific software requests for like keyboard to digital keyboard touch screen. i see so many things wrong with that

For one, the android os is in no way dependent on the HTC phones currently officially supported, and it has been run on lots of other hardware before, some using touchscreen. Also, since android is open source, it would not be difficult to implement a soft-keyboard client that would simply send identical commands that a hardware keyboard would send. It's really not an issue.

Originally Posted by RicardoFelix

Its beta so yeah, keep upaded on here: blog.iphone-dev.org

That's not the right blog, are posted here: Linux on the iPhone



Anyways, as much as I love my iPhone I am super happy to see this development. Android is likely no more than a few months away, and I'm excited to see how this all plays out. Can't wait to play HL1 on my iPhone!

[M4tt Dam0n]

I guess its cool for the nerds but there is no point in replacing the iPhone's already incredibly good OS.

[461am]

^no point in jailbreaking at all then, eh? And yet we're still all here.