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Imagine running Linux on your iPhone. I just can’t wait for that day but the it doesn’t seem to happen anytime soon
by mraza007 5y ago
Imagine running Linux on your iPhone. I just can’t wait for that day but the it doesn’t seem to happen anytime soon
- joana035 5y agoI guess that is already possible, I remember seeing a guy doing that somewhere in the internet.
- gtirloni 5y ago"A developer got Ubuntu Linux booting on the Apple iPhone 7" https://www.xda-developers.com/apple-iphone-7-ubuntu-linux-checkra1n-project-sandcastle/ https://www.xda-developers.com/apple-iphone-7-ubuntu-linux-c...
- gtk40 5y agoI've seen ways of running Android (Linux kernel) on iPhones for over a decade on-line, though I don't know that any ever fully supported it.
- kreetx 5y agoMy dream would be to run nixos on my phone so I could have all my devices configured from a single set of config files. Could then unify entire infra from config to sync and backups.
- peteretep 5y agoWhy though? Is the iPhone hardware that much better than their high-end competitors? I’m a big Apple fanboy but I buy an iPhone (and indeed a Mac) to run iOS (and macOS)
- boxed 5y agoYes it is. Apple is way ahead of the competition in CPU design. Which is why the M1 is making Intel look so bad right now.