Users of iPhone will soon be able to run Linux insted of the proprietary iPhone OS. The project is under planetbeing, the lead developer and a member of the iPhone Dev team. They have developed openiboot, a bootloader that lets you boot into Linux. There is no touchscreen support yet and the project is far from completion, but the future is wide open…talk about Android iPhone!!!
Here is a short demo video showing Linux 2.6 kernel on iPhone. Enjoy 🙂
Visit: iPhone Linux Wiki
Official iPhone linux Blog
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