iPhone 7 boots postmarketOS, becomes the first Apple Linux smartphone
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iPhone 7 boots postmarketOS, becomes the first Apple Linux smartphone
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Raffaele T.
CS student, Linux enthusiast and developer, active follower of the world of Linux for portable devices and currently involved in porting postmarketOS to new devices.
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18 Apr 2020 • 1 min read
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Let us face it: six months ago, nobody would realistically have expected a proprietary Apple iOS device to become a Linux smartphone.
However, as we have seen in the previous weeks, the seventh generation of Apple smartphones has seen successful efforts of reverse engineering by the Corellium/Project Sandcastle developers, up to the point of booting proper Android 10 with LCD and touch screen support, and now postmarketOS Linux as next.
In fact, could an OS that runs on mptorbikes, pocket calculators and "smart" dishwashers not enter the unexplored wonderland of Apple proprietary chips at some point?
There is little more to say than whatwe already did in our previous posts on the (unbelievably fast) progress of Linux on the Apple A10 proprietary SoC, so we will simply link to the port author's blog for (slightly) more information on how you can already try booting postmarketOS on your iPhone 7 today.
Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7
We will make sure to update this article as soon as the device lands in the official "testing" repository of this so versatile Linux distribution.
Via: postmarketOS chat rooms / Reddit
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