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I'm not really into the jail breaking / free software / right to repair side of this issue. I'm more interested in jailbreaking iOS devices because I believe th
by ryanmarsh 7y ago
I'm not really into the jail breaking / free software / right to repair side of this issue. I'm more interested in jailbreaking iOS devices because I believe they are incredible alternative to Raspberry Pi. If you consider how cheaply you can find a used iPhone 4S and what it's capable of, vs. a Raspberry Pi (as much as I love them) the engineering of the iPhone SOC really becomes stark in comparison. I'd rather be writing Swift code and loading it onto an iPhone.
I believe an old iPhone could potentially make for a great DIY drone mainboard/controller.
- alperakgun 7y agoimho, a myriad of ios won't have the same Linux support which rasperry pi's enjoy.
- ryanmarsh 7y agoNot sure how that matters? iOS has great SDKs for device access and acceleration. Plenty of Unix software compiles on iOS too. Which packages would I want but could not compile for iOS?
- alperakgun 7y agoi think, ios, sdk and tools won't work for iphone 4,5,6 etc - so you won't have developer tool chain support and no way to update them due to non-OSS proprietary base.
- iamaelephant 7y agoSounds like you want an Android device.
- eddieh 7y agoI'd love to run Linux or NetBSD on the 3rd Gen Apple TV. I don't know if this would allow that. Last time I looked, the consensus was a hard no. There's also going to be tons of AirPort base stations that should be re-purposed, but as far as I know nobody has even bothered to find a jail break for AirPort devices. It would be nice just to be able to SSH into an AP.
- notaplumber 7y agoThis is already possible. SSH can be enabled on the AirPort. Indeed, they run a build of NetBSD 6.0. https://jcs.org/2018/06/12/airport_ssh https://jcs.org/2018/06/12/airport_ssh
- eddieh 7y agoOh nice! I'm surprised I missed this.