Dev Team brings Linux to iPhone

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:14:35 +0000

It’s finally happened, Linux successfully running on the iPhone, 3g, and first gen iPod Touch. This is the first alternative operating system available for the iPhone. This is considered a draft version, more proof of concept than anything else, but none the less quite successful and impressive. The software includes Linux 2.6 Kernel, and the bare essentials for running command line. All the iPhone goodies such as touch screen, audio, networking, and accelorometer do not have any driver support at this time.

Also the Dev Team has incorporated a slick new boot loader named, OpeniBoot. This allows users to toggle between the iPhone OS, and an alternative OS, in this case Linux. The Dev Team hopes to bring Google’s Android software to the iPhone platform in the near future.

iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo.

First post – iPhone keyboard hack

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:34:25 +0000

So welcome to Just My iPhone! I’m planning on growing this into a pretty tight iPhone resource filled website … but enough about the site let’s get straight to the news!

My Japanese a bit rusty these days, so I’m not exactly sure what’s said over at moyashi.air-nifty.com but it seems they’ve taken a jailbroken iPhone and got a small keyboard hooked up and working. You can use Google to translate for you, but it tends to mess up the translation a bit so I wouldn’t rely too much on it. I’m not sure how useful this would be would be for someone who’s on the go, but for someone who commutes maybe on a train, or sits for any extended period of time may find something like this useful. Make sure to check out the video below and see it in action!

Just My iPhone » iPhone Hacks

Dev Team brings Linux to iPhone

First post – iPhone keyboard hack