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Good news from an open source point of view for the iphone boot loader. This opens up the possibility for example to boot Linux on Iphones.

• dvcrn 7y ago
  Why would you want to do that?
  • panpanna 7y ago
    This is Hacker News. Why wouldn't you?
    • rvz 7y ago
      Other than dual-booting Android on the iPhone, I fail to see any other credibly useful reason to run the Linux kernel or some Linux distro on an iDevice. To each to their own I guess.
      • simonmales 7y ago
        I have a gifted iPad 2 collecting dust. IMHO the hardware is quite capable. Meaning that it would be a very convenient headless server with its own UPS. Similarly to custom ROMs for Android breath new life in non supported devices, I believe running Linux on an old iDevice would be simple way to get perfectly good hardware doing something again.