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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[-] Sina@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago

I assume Apple will go well out of their way to plug whatever hole allowed this boot to happen on new generations.

That's probably not really a concern, since I'm guessing the main thing that enables this is jailbreak, which is an ongoing cat & m game since the iphone 3g's era.

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