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Linux's New Digs: The iPhone

 

Published 12/2/2008 by thegline@optonline.net (Serdar Yegulalp) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

So now the latest iteration of the iPhone hasn't just been "jailbroken", it's snagged a visa to another country entirely. A project named OpeniBoot lets you boot Linux on the iPhone -- admittedly with little more than a command line, but for Linux that's more than enough to begin with. (link)

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