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blog.project-insanity.org is a personal blog at blog.project-insanity.org about systems, hardware and programming. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on running Linux on old iPhone and iPad hardware, including postmarketOS on the iPhone 7 and a Wayland desktop environment. Comments cite the posts as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Running postmarketOS on iPhone 75 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-04-18
- Linux with Wayland is now running on iPhone 74 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-04-23
What Hacker News says?
Project Insanity have been going to work at running Linux phone OS on the iPhone. Early days/long shot etc. but worth keeping an eye on. https://blog.project-insanity.org/2020/04/16/running-postmar...
Comment linking /2020/04/16/running-postmarketos-on-iphone-7/
on “Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut”Submitted Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7 as a story · 293 points
HN discussionRunning graphical desktop environments also appears to be possible: https://blog.project-insanity.org/2020/04/22/linux-with-wayl...
Comment linking /2020/04/22/linux-with-wayland-is-now-running-on-iphone-7/
on “iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.04 via USB ethernet”Submitted Hardware fix for Dell “AC power adapter could not be determined” as a story · 146 points
HN discussionHe's right you know; and it's true. This happened when checkra1n was out and we saw a tech demo with 'Linux' on an iPhone 7 [0]. Then we have it running a Ubuntu GUI on an iPhone 7 a year later. [1] However, want to do this yourself? [2] Follow these straightforward and simple 'prerequisites' : First get a cross-compiler, git clone, patch, patch, kernel setup, CONFIG_ABCD=XYZ, make build, DFU blah blah blah and afte…
Comment linking /2020/04/22/linux-with-wayland-is-now-running-on-iphone-7/
on “Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to make it run Linux soon”Submitted Emulate legacy printer drivers for CUPS with QEMU as a story · 135 points
HN discussionMaybe link to the actual blog post about doing this instead of this blog post about a blog post about doing this? https://blog.project-insanity.org/2020/04/16/running-postmar...
Comment linking /2020/04/16/running-postmarketos-on-iphone-7/
on “Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7”Submitted Low-tech “mild coffee” with Aeropress as a story · 1 points
HN discussioniPhones don't really contain any hardware that does not have more or less a conceptual equivalent in other smartphones. I suppose with "TPM" you mean the "Secure Element", which on iPhones and modern Android phones contains the disk encryption keys. Like a lot of other smartphones, the main difficulty in running something else on an iDevice is the locked bootloader. It won't run anything not signed by Apple. If an e…
Comment linking /2020/04/16/running-postmarketos-on-iphone-7/
on “Ubuntu successfully virtualized on M1”Submitted Unoffical NixOS packages worth checking out as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> But for all practical purposes it cannot run anything but iOS and any discussions about running an aftermarket OS is purely academic. The project you referred to had a follow-up in late april: https://blog.project-insanity.org/2020/04/22/linux-with-wayl... . Calling the project (or any project, really) "purely academic" with the implication that it will never evolve is nonsense. Like many other projects it's of co…
Comment linking /2020/04/22/linux-with-wayland-is-now-running-on-iphone-7/
on “PinePhone: PostmarketOS Community Edition”Submitted Auto authenticate to public wifis or test hotspots as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPeople have run Linux distros on the iPhone 7 and the old iPhone 2G/3G, so it isn't improbable that someone could get Linux to work on the iPhone 4. https://blog.project-insanity.org/2020/04/16/running-postmar... https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kux9xx/success_iphon... https://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2010/05/iphone-3g-binarie...
Comment linking /2020/04/16/running-postmarketos-on-iphone-7/
on “Right to Repair Fight”Submitted Linux with Wayland is now running on iPhone 7 as a story · 1 points
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