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> to scale the iPod’s embedded Linux OS up to serve as a phone OS The OS of the iPod was Linux-based? edit: hm I should have read all of the article before co
by temac 5y ago
> to scale the iPod’s embedded Linux OS up to serve as a phone OS
The OS of the iPod was Linux-based?
edit: hm I should have read all of the article before commenting, although the way it is written at the start is quite misleading, I find
- withinboredom 5y agoOne of the first jailbreaks gave you a shell to the file system IIRC
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- LeoPanthera 5y ago> The OS of the iPod was Linux-based? It wasn't. For those who didn't read the article: Apple was considering (not very seriously) replacing the iPod OS with one based on Linux, as the existing OS codebase was such a mess it was bordering on unmaintainable. Obviously, the idea was not implemented, but it was this proposed OS that would have been "scaled up" to the iPhone.
- vlovich123 5y agoJobs if I recall correctly had tried to hire Linus to work on Darwin. I don’t believe the Linux on iPhone/iPad project had any meaningful realistic traction beyond engineering proposing it as a path forward and building the prototypes on it. My impression was that it was a nonstarter politically.