Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-24 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Am 24.09.2009 um 05:11 schrieb Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez: After the upgrade to 3.0 I losted a lot of unix commands (top, for example) which it seems to work only on 2.X firmwares. Those were only removed from the base system, you can still install them via Cydia. -- Jonathan

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-24 Thread Mark Mathias
I remember reading somewhere that the jail broken OS is actually based on OpenBSD. -- Mark Mathias

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-24 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:33:06AM -0400, Mark Mathias wrote: I remember reading somewhere that the jail broken OS is actually based on OpenBSD. your memory is playing tricks or what you read wasn't true. -Otto

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-24 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Mark Mathias markdmath...@gmail.com wrote: I remember reading somewhere that the jail broken OS is actually based on OpenBSD. No, if you jailbreak it, you just break out of the jail in which all applications run. The OS running on the iPhone is almost the same as OS X, which is based on Darwin

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-23 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
David Vasek escribis: Hi, OSX has a system_profiler(8) command, which gives you a lot of information about the hardware: # system_profiler -detailLevel full It might help. But don't post the -detailLevel full output to misc@ as it is really huge, I think -detailLevel basic would be

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-19 Thread David Vasek
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: After I upgraded the Iphone to 3.01 I lost some of the Unix tools I had installed. dmesg just give me some partial information. Nothing valuable. I will look for the unix tool missing and give you the dmesg output... Hi, OSX has a

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
I just found somebody port the netbsd man pages to the iphone (which is nothing to me). Brian W. escribis: Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Totally offtopic: Reading the article posted on undeadly.org: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1393496 I was thinking it would be cool to

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
I just found this page: http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-iphone-linux.html I don't have any idea about how/where to start. Maybe Theo can put some light here...I think my developer skills are far to be good enough but, hey...I would like to try !! Regards, Alvaro beowuff

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Jan Stary
On Sep 18 02:20:38, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: I just found this page: http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-iphone-linux.html I don't have any idea about how/where to start. Maybe Theo can put some light here...I think my developer skills are far to be good enough but,

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 05:10:49AM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: I just found this page: http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-iphone-linux.html I don't have any idea about how/where to start. Maybe Theo can put some light here...I think my

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Gilles Chehade
hehe, following a link from a link from thelinuxoniphone blog, I ran into this: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone made my day ;-) Gilles On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 05:10:49AM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: I just found this page:

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Michal
That whole site as brilliant rants that remind me zero punctuation videos :) -Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Gilles Chehade Sent: 18 September 2009 12:22 To: Jacob Yocom-Piatt Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Iphone

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
Joachim Schipper escribis: Actually, I think that's a rather low estimate. A lot of what people seem to like about the iPhone is the software: the hardware is neat and all, but not *that* different from other smartphones. Apple has spent a lot of money producing a really polished UI;

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
Jan Stary escribis: We will be trying to develop an entire suite of device drivers for undocumented hardware and then attempt to run a full-fledged operating system on it. Just hack away! After reading http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone of

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Michal
-Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez Sent: 18 September 2009 17:04 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD Jan Stary escribis: We will be trying to develop an entire suite of device

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
Jacob Yocom-Piatt escribis: getting openbsd working on an iphone would be a pretty serious undertaking and would require a lot of man hours that aren't currently available. you have to remember that the project is mostly driven by donated developer time. Yes, I know. The developers are

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Lars Nooden
Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Joachim Schipper escribis: Actually, I think that's a rather low estimate. A lot of what people seem to like about the iPhone is the software: the hardware is neat and all, but not *that* different from other smartphones. Apple has spent a lot of money

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
out of everything HaHaHa...sorry...I wake up this morning without sense of humor -Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez Sent: 18 September 2009 17:04 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Iphone

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
Lars Nooden escribis: Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Joachim Schipper escribis: Actually, I think that's a rather low estimate. A lot of what people seem to like about the iPhone is the software: the hardware is neat and all, but not *that* different from other smartphones. Apple has spent a

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Brynet
Hi, Perhaps it's not an IPhone, but it may be possible to run OpenBSD on it.. with potentially less hair pulling. http://www.windowsfordevices.com/c/a/News/In-Technology-Group-XPPhone/ I humbly request dmesg pr0n, and that everyone hug Bob Beck when you see him. -Brynet

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Miod Vallat
The iPhone is already using a BSD OS..so..is it possible that some of the drivers required are already functional? Check this: $ ssh r...@iphone | tee iphone.txt r...@iphone's password: [...] What, no dmesg? Miod

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Jan Stary
On Sep 18 10:04:11, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Jan Stary escribis: We will be trying to develop an entire suite of device drivers for undocumented hardware and then attempt to run a full-fledged operating system on it. Just hack away! After reading

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
Miod Vallat escribis: The iPhone is already using a BSD OS..so..is it possible that some of the drivers required are already functional? Check this: $ ssh r...@iphone | tee iphone.txt r...@iphone's password: [...] What, no dmesg? Miod After I upgraded the Iphone to 3.01 I lost some of

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Bruce Bauer
Subject: Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:30:46 +0200 On Sep 18 10:04:11, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Jan Stary escribis: We will be trying to develop an entire suite of device drivers for undocumented hardware and then attempt to run

OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-17 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
Totally offtopic: Reading the article posted on undeadly.org: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1393496 I was thinking it would be cool to have an Iphone running OpenBSD... Imagine that: the most secure phone in the planet :-P Regards, Alvaro

Re: OT: Iphone with OpenBSD

2009-09-17 Thread beowuff
Reading the article posted on undeadly.org: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1393496 I was thinking it would be cool to have an Iphone running OpenBSD... Imagine that: the most secure phone in the planet :-P Man, I have an old 1st gen iPhone just sitting there... I would so