Can Iphone run Linux?
Linux ran on the iPod and I hope it runs on the iPhone too - imagine the possibilities... If this becomes a reality it could do amazing things for its reputation, mobile computing and the Linux mobile market. This could be a big event if someone gets it to work.
Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Linux, and Symbian currently power the world’s smartphones. How does each stack up against Apple’s OS X in the iPhone? This article presents an overview of Linux.
The use of Linux for mobile devices is similar to Apple's approach in using a version of its desktop Mac OS X on the iPhone. The biggest difference between Linux and OS X in mobile development is that OS X is only available to Apple. For open source advocates, this raises issues about freedom of control, access to code, and the development potential available to third parties.
Neither OS X nor Linux was designed expressly for mobile use either; both are designed to provide general purpose computing environments. Mac OS X's userland comes from all over; it uses a large amount of GNU software, including the GCC compiler. In Tiger, Apple adopted the typical Linux bash command line shell instead of the previous default of tsch.
The goals of the iPhone-Linux project are to port the full 2.6.x Linux operating system to the Apple iPhone, to create a system whereby users can easily use Linux on their iPhone, and to facilitate interoperability between Linux and Darwin/ARM.
