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 any kind ...

Linux on iPhone is born...
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — So, it was bound to happen at some time. Linux is now booting on the iPhone.  It still has a long way to go in the "features" department but tinkerers will no doubt be interested in playing with the iPhone and its new capabilities.  Don't expect a mainstream version any time soon...head to OpenMoko if that is your thing. via Engadget   ...

iPhone hackers achieve a milestone: Linux boot
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: OS, Open Source, iPhone, Jailbreak/pwnage Call it the Touchable Penguin. OK, the touchscreen drivers aren't there yet, but the simple, scrolling shell output of a Linux kernel running on the iPhone represents a big achievement for the iPhone Dev Team and dev lead 'planetbeing.' The build is far from complete -- no wireless networking, no sound, no writeable support for the NAND flash memory -- but it's still very cool, and the effort involved was substantial (the team had to reverse-engineer the iPhone's boot loader so they could write their own). ...

OpeniBoot - iPhone Linux
iTech News Net — planetbeing, one of the iPhone Dev Team members, has ported the Linux OS to the iPhone and named OpeniBoot. The OpeniBoot allows users to choose between Linux OS and iPhone’s Mac OS. Currently the iPhone Linux is not a complete solution for end users as it doesn’t support wireless networking, touchscree, acelerometer…etc yet. A video after the cut: ...

iPhone Linux
Hack a Day — Embedded above is a demo video of an iPhone running a Linux 2.6 kernel. The iphone-dev team has created a new bootloader called OpeniBoot. The bootloader lets you boot into a Linux console, which you can talk to over a USB serial device. They’ve got busybox working, but there ...

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 (yet!): - ...

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. They’ve ...

Breaking News: Linux Ported to the iPhone
iPhone Hacks — Planetbeing has mentioned in the announcement that this is currently a rough first draft of the port as drivers for touchscreen, sound, Wi-Fi/cell radio support are still missing. It appears that they also have plans to port Android to the iPhone and are looking for folks with prior experience in hacking/porting Android. You can checkout the video demonstration of Linux running on the iPhone below: You can download the Linux port here and follow these instructions to install it. Please proceed with caution as this is only for the technically inclined. It is also a rough first draft and in current form will make your iPhone unusable. Today's ...

Linux Ported to the iPhone, Android Coming Soon?
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — iPhone devteam member planetbeing has managed to successfully port Linux over to the iPhone. While it certainly needs some polish, the hack shows promising signs for running alternate operating system’s on the iPhone. Planetbeing explains, “I’m pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple’s iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port, and many drivers are still missing, but it’s enough that a real alternative operating ...

iPhone Dev Team Runs Linux on the iPhone
Cult of Mac — The iPhone DevTeam took ...

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 (yet!): - ...

Redefining “user unfriendliness”: Linux is ported to the iPhone… for some reason
Macenstein — I’ve never been a fan of how user-friendly the iPhone’s OS is. Sure, it’s OK , but it’s always bothered me that I did not need a USB client, computer and keyboard hooked to it to display a text-navigated kernel, and instead I was forced to use that beautiful graphical interface and intuitive touch screen to navigate my visually stunning and well-designed apps and games. Well, luckily for me, my days of easily getting things done on the iPhone may be numbered, as Linux, the operating system that seems to exist solely for the purpose of seeing which devices that were not meant to run on can be forced to run it, can add another notch on its belt – the iPhone. The ...

Run Linux on your iPhone
The Next Web — The news du jour is that some people have managed to install and run Linux on an iPhone. I’m not sure what the benefit is but I’m sure someone will be able to tell me that in the comments here. Check out the video for proof: iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo. ...

Android on iPhone is One, Giant Step Closer
AndroidGuys — Thanks to the guys over at blog.iphone-dev.org, Android is moving ever so close to being run on the iPhone.  Yesterday saw them announcing that they’ve reverse engineered the iPhone and first generation iPods to run Linux.  The official announcement was the basis for a new Blogger site aptly called Linux on iPhone. I’m pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple’s iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port, and many drivers are still missing, but it’s ...

Linux on the iPhone
Obsessable News Feed — Some enterprising hackers have managed to get the iPhone to boot Linux. The iphone-dev team announced the achievement yesterday and launched a new blog dedicated to the launch. The touch interface hasn't yet been implemented and for now it's a barebones terminal view of Linux that is controlled by a keyboard connected via USB interface, but the video below nevertheless marks the beginnings of running a non-Apple OS on the iPhone. iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo.; If after watching the video, you're still left ...

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 your ...

Linux on the iPhone
iPhone Atlas — A group of developers, led by someone using the handle “planetbeing,” have produced a method to load Linux 2.6’s kernel to the iPhone. The hack is supported on all generations of the Apple iPhone and the first generation of the iPod Touch. According to the announcement, however “many drivers are still missing, but it’s enough that a real alternative operating system is running on the iPhone.” According to the post the following are completed: Framebuffer driver, Serial driver, Serial over USB driver, Interrupts, MMU, and Clock, etc. Items still in progress include: Read/Write NAND support, wireless LAN, ...

2.6 Linux Kernel Ported to iPhone!
Planet iPhones — OpeniBoot Linux       DevTeam’s very own planetbeing  announced yesterday that the Linux 2.6 kernel was successfully ported for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch platforms. Introducing,  iPhone Linux !! It’s the beginning of a real alternative operating system. Currently, it’s only a first rough draft and there are many drivers missing. But it’s a start… They do not have wireless networking, touchscreen, sound, accelerometer, or baseband support YET. More is coming as they develop and stabilize it. In simple terms, it’s like Microsoft DOS. It only has a command line user interface with very few features.      There is a demo video at ...

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 mere fact ...

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 mere fact ...

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

Linux runs on an iPhone
HardMac.com — Source : Engadget It is now possible to download and install a version of Linux dedicated to the iPhone. Once the system to boot has been chosen, you will see Linux launching. But attention, thi is still at the stage of first " exploit". Alas, there is not a great deal to do under Linux, and certainly not to telephone! ...

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 algo ...

iPhone gets the Linux treatment
Boy Genius Report — iPhone dev team member Planetbeing has successfully reverse engineered Apple’s hardware drivers and has managed to get the Linux kernel to boot on the 2G and 3G iPhone and the 1st gen iPod Touch. This first attempt is limited in functionality with support only for the Framebuffer driver, Serial driver, Serial over USB driver, and other items like Interrupts, MMU, clock, etc. The dev team is still working on things like enabling write support for the NAND, Wireless networking, Touchscreen support, Sound, Accelerometer and Baseband support. Despite these limitations, it is still exciting to see the iPhone boot an alternative OS and it is means ...

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 multiple ...

iPhone Running Android? Windows Mobile, Too?
Android Phone Fans — Since Android is an Open Source operating system you could theoretically run it virtually on other handsets and platforms. Just as your Mac can run Windows virtually, the folks at iphone-dev.org have mashed up a solution for the iPhone to run Linux. Porting Android over would be the logical next step. And so the quest for mobile nirvana continues. I’m curious how many iPhone owners would actually run Android on their device, seeing as how most are nearly religious in their claims that the iPhone trumps all others. So why would you want to run Android, anyway? The other interesting thing is ...

iPhone goes open-source - Linux ported to iPhone!
IntoMobile — 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 with their ...

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 eliges ...

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 slaps a few ...

Linux for iPhone: Is An Android iPhone Next?
iSmashPhone - Turn your Phone into your MyPhone — The iPhone Dev Team has done it again... Team member planetbeing, thanks to some clever reverse-engineering, has figured out how to run Linux on an iPhone, controlled with a USB keyboard running off the iPhone multi-purpose port. While the current implications of this hack are at best academic, one projected outcome is ...

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

Linux on the iPhone
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — linux The penguin is one step closer to becoming BFFs with the iPhone. Recently members of the iPhoneDevTeam ported a working Linux 2.6 kernel to the Apple iPhone . It was thought to be impossible, but using slick reverse engineering, the developers made Linux geeks the world over giddy with delight. Using a system boot software, OpeniBoot, and a Busybox toolkit, they were able to port the Linux kernel to a jailbroken iPhone. Openiboot allows the iPhone to be booted into more than one operating system. The developers managed to port the Linux Kernal to the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod touch. The port has limited ability at the moment, it can only be utilized when ...

Linux now running on Apple iPhone (with video) - Google Android on iPhone next?
MacDailyNews — Linux now running on Apple iPhone (with video) - Google Android on iPhone next? Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 04:17 PM EST "I'm pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple's iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port, and many drivers are still missing, but it's enough that a real alternative operating system is running on the iPhone," PlanetBeing reports for the "Linux on the iPhone" blog: iPhone Linux Demonstration Video ...

See Linux running on the iPhone
MacBytes.com — I guess it was really just a matter of time until it happened, but thanks to PlanetBeing, an industrious member of the iPhone Dev Team, Linux is running on an iPhone. iPhone Linux demonstration video from PlanetBeing on Vimeo ...

See Linux running on the iPhone
MacBytes.com — I guess it was really just a matter of time until it happened, but thanks to PlanetBeing, an industrious member of the iPhone Dev Team, Linux is running on an iPhone. iPhone Linux demonstration video from PlanetBeing on Vimeo ...

Linux running on iPhone
PalmAddicts — [From Mark McGrath] Thanks Mark for the heads up on this one, video showing Linux running on the iPhone. iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo.