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A group of amateur iPhone developers has ported Linux to the device. Members of the 'iphonelinux' development team revealed that they had installed a working version of the Linux kernel on Apple's iPhone and ...

Linux has been ported to the iPhone and iPod touch, check it out at Linux on the 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 ...

ars Technica: "An iPhone hacker has successfully ported the open source Linux kernel to Apple's popular mobile device.

Although the port is still at a very early stage of development and currently only supports a slim subset of the iPhone's capabilities, it demonstrates the versatility of the Linux kernel and the ingenuity of iPhone modding enthusiasts."

Even it looks pretty primitive with missing drivers and just a terminal we guess now that the community has seen it a lot more people might jump on board now.

That could be the beginning of a seismic shift for smartphone software. It opens the door for open-source operating systems to jump onto devices not built specifically for them.

BLOGS December 01, 2008 A group of Apple enthusiast developers last week celebrated a significant milestone by getting a rudimentary version of Linux to run on the iPhone.

One of the hackers responsible for creating tools to unlock the iPhone from its exclusive partner carriers has gone one step further and managed to load a full fledged version of Linux on the Apple device.

iPhone-Dev.org has demonstrated a basic Linux 2.6 kernel and OpeniBoot bootloader for first- and second-generation Apple iPhones, as well as the first-generation Touch.

The port lacks support for touchscreen, audio, WiFi, or cellular communications, but future plans call for an Android port.

Apple's slice of the Internet pie grew measurably in November as both the Mac and the iPhone hit record numbers in a Net Applications Web survey issued overnight Monday.

Istruzioni, file di installazione e video per installare Linux su iPhone e iPod Touch