Debian gets ported to the G1, makes nice with Android

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Mon, 11/10/2008 - 11:35

Recent firmware updates may have aimed to shut down such shenanigans, but it looks they were a little too slow to stop Jay Freeman (a.k.a.

Saurik) from going to town with his newly jailbroken G1 and installing Debian on the handset. What's more, he apparently even managed to get Debian and Android to play nice with each other.


 

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