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Developer Dual Boots iOS 13.3 and Linux on iPhone 8 But There’s a Catch

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 17th of April 2020 06:58:17 PM Filed under
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Developers have the tendency and urge to test the boundaries of code. According to the latest, a developer has managed to dual boot Linus and iOS 13.3 on his iPhone 8. Previously, we have seen how a jailbroken iPhone was able to run Android 10. We haven't previously seen the likelihood of a dual boot on an iOS device, so it is a very interesting approach. Scroll down for more details on the matter.

As mentioned earlier, this is the first time that we are seeing a potential dual boot for 64-bit iPhone modes. Take note that such solutions have existed for 32-bit iPhone models like the iPhone 5 and the fourth-generation iPad or older devices. To be more precise, the developer managed to boot iOS 13.3 and Linux kernel on the iPhone 8. The interesting part is that both platforms use the same data volume. What this means is that you will be able to access all of your data from either of the software builds.

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Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 20th of April 2020 05:44:36 PM.
  • Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7

    During pmbootstrap init, you can leave most of the defaults as they are. Just select no user interface to avoid large system images.

    As you can see above, I’m using the package manager pacman on ArchLinux to install required dependencies. Most of them should be available on other Linux distributions too.

    [...]

    Using the first checkra1n command will acquire DFU mode on the iPhone. Follow the steps in the program until DFU mode is reached, than kill the program so that no jailbreak is installed on the phone. The second checkra1n command requires DFU mode and will reboot you’re iPhone into PongoOS. From there we can load the Linux kernel together with the device tree file using the tool load-linux.

    I hope this will bring further progress to custom Linux operating systems on Apple devices. There are already experiments with dual booting and partitioning. So maybe it could be possible in the future to get persistent storage on the phone for Linux systems!

  • Linux On iPhone: You Can Now Run PostmarketOS On iPhone 7

    Running a Linux-based mobile OS on Android devices is no longer an impossible task, thanks to Ubuntu Touch, PureOS, and others. But porting mobile OSes on Apple devices has a long way to go as iPhones are designed specifically to run propriety iOS.

    Nonetheless, you can still try your luck and run a Linux-based OS on the iPhone as Project Insanity is here to help you out. In their latest blog posts, they demonstrated the successful installation and testing of minimal PostmarketOS on iPhone 7 using checkra1n and Corellium tools.

iPhone 7 Becomes a Linux Phone Thanks to postmarketOS Hack

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 21st of April 2020 06:47:07 AM.
  • iPhone 7 Becomes a Linux Phone Thanks to postmarketOS Hack

    Linux phones are becoming more of a common thing these days, with more and more companies investing in such a device, but as it turns out, you can actually create your very own Linux smartphone at home without spending hundreds of dollars.

    Someone has managed to install postmarketOS on an iPhone 7 using the checkra1n jailbreak tool that helped flash a Linux kernel on the device.

    As you can see in the screenshot here, the project doesn’t yet have a GUI, so everything comes down to the command line, but given it’s all just a work in progress, further improvements are obviously on their way.

Linux On iPhone 7 Now Running Wayland Graphical Window Manager

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 24th of April 2020 10:25:39 AM.
  • Linux On iPhone 7 Now Running Wayland Graphical Window Manager

    A few days ago, we reported a successful installation and testing of minimal PostmarketOS Linux on iPhone 7 by project-insanity. Now they’ve successfully unlocked another feature moving forward from the command line to graphical user interface (GUI).

    Earlier they ran PostmarketOS with no GUI using a persistent system image from the iPhone system memory. This time, Project Insanity is able to set up every sort of graphical window manager — Wayland’s minimal and fast composer, Weston, for instance. For the same, they used tools and techniques that Corellium uses in their Android build for the iPhone.

Hacker ports Linux-based postmarketOS to the iPhone 7 (sort of)

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 28th of April 2020 01:16:32 AM.
  • Hacker ports Linux-based postmarketOS to the iPhone 7 (sort of)

    Some developed have been taking advantage of the latest iOS bootrom exploit to turn the iPhone 7 into an Android device. But one developer decided to try something different and turn the iPhone 7 into a Linux device.

    At this point, the project seems to be very much a work in progress — but it is at least possible to boot a version of the Linux-based postmarketOS on Apple’s 2016-era smartphones.

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