You may or may not have heard about this depending on how much interest you have on hacks and tweaks. ‘Planetbeing’ have been busy working on just how they could port Linux and get it to run on the iPhone. Does this make the first gen iPhone 2G even more vulnerable to hackers than it did before (ie: iPhone Dev Team), I’m afraid it does. But there’s no harm in doing that is there?

Check out the demonstration video below…

What have they manage to get working?

- Framebuffer driver
- Serial driver
- Serial over USB driver
- Interrupts, MMU, clock, etc

But still much more work needs to be done and these include:

- Write support for the NAND
- Wireless networking
- Touchscreen
- Sound
- Accelerometer
- Baseband support

For more info, check out Linux on the iPhone…

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