The iPhone DevTeam, which has long been working on hacking iPhone firmware, has now ported the Linux kernel to the iPhone platform.

If you know one thing about Linux users, it’s probably this: they enjoy the challenge of installing their operating system of choice on pretty much anything with a transistor in it. It’s only a matter of time before they get around to replacing all those electronic singing greeting cards to make the sound of penguin mating calls.

So the news that Linux has been ported to the iPhone and the iPod touch shouldn’t exactly come as a shock; please hold your cries of heresy until the end. OpeniBoot, which brings the Linux 2.6 kernel to the iPhone platform was developed by members of the iPhone DevTeam, the same folks who have long been working on cracking the iPhone’s firmware every time a new version comes out.

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(Via Macworld.)