Hackers boot Linux on iPhone!!!

A new gateway has opened in the ongoing arms race between Apple and iPhone hackers, with one hacker group making the iPhone boot with a Linux 2.6 kernel.

This successful kernel porting was announced on the Linux on the iPhone blog, complete with instructions and source code.

Although a bootloader, kernel and a Busybox terminal are able to be loaded; a few features of the iPhone remain unimplemented, such as touchscreen, sound, accelerometer and networking. Input to the terminal must be made via a USB interface from another device that the iPhone is attached to.

The group that ported the kernel is derived from the iPhone DevTeam group which was responsible for jailbreaking previous iPhone software.