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Linux boots on the iPhone 11, and we believe we’re the first in the world to do it. (www.patreon.com)
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Every line in the boot path is code we wrote. There is zero Apple code between power-on and Linux. The bootloader is ours, top to bottom. To our knowledge, no one has done this on an A13 device before.

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[-] gollumsfish@lemmy.zip 132 points 2 days ago

That’s impressive. A full Linux system on Apple devices would go crazy.

[-] Aneb@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

We talking interconnected systems operating on Apple devices? Like the LinuxOS for {Pad,I,Mac,Watch}OS that would be really awesome. I would go back to an apple phone

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