The iPhone (or iPod Touch) is a 667MHz computer (albeit one that is only running at 412MHz) with 128MB of RAM and between 4 and 32 GB of flash. For software, it is running a pared down Mac OS X with its standard complement of a FreeBSD-based userland over a Darwin kernel. While some people wonder why anyone would attempt to use it as a Unix workstation, to me and many others it seems ludicrous
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JustAnotherMobilePhoneBlog on 2nd Jan 2009 (via feeds.feedburner.com)
Google may have pushed out recent firmware updates for the Google Android T-Mobile G1, but it seems they weren’t quite quick enough for one hacker. Apparently Jay Freeman who just happens to be the author of such Apple iPhone programs as Cydia, Winterboard and Cycorder, has managed to get Debian running on the jailbroken T-Mobile
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PhonesReview on 12th Nov 2008 (via phonesreview.co.uk)
The method to get root access to T-Mobile’s G1 hasn’t been around for too long, but someone has already found a way to get Debian Linux running on the G1. Apparently installing Debian will allow you... [
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TheBestDigital on 12th Nov 2008 (via feeds.feedburner.com)
Thanks to the efforts of one appropriately named Jay Freeman, it is now possible to get a version of the Debian Linux distro running on your T-Mobile G1 along side of Android. You get the same Android phone functionality you’ve always had, but you can also install and run normal Linux compatible applications on the
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AndroidAuthority on 11th Nov 2008 (via androidauthority.com)
Mobile Monday Boston is lucky to have Nokia's Research Center close by, but this sounds like something you wouldn't want to tell the world. They [NRC] is apparently working on a mobile phone platform derived from the Debian Linux distribution. ---
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IntoMobile on 10th Feb 2008 (via intomobile.com)