>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@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
>> 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 course.
>
>
> Compare the two phones is not the point here...this guy does not have
> any clue about what the iPhone is and probably he is using his Nokia to
> give pleasure himself through his ass.
>
> The site describes a "normal" iPhone. A Jailbroken iPhone with cydia and
> all the packages and cool stuff is a different beast. You can run perl,
> php, python, ruby, apache, svn, cvs, etc...you can manage your servers
> (the example that the guy is using against the iPhone) trough the
> Terminal application and connect with openssh, rdp or vnc...whatever you
> want.
>
> The keyboard comment...it is just valid for an English speaker...if you
> are from other language with more complex characters then you do "less
> work" because is more easy to select that characters and guest what? you
> do less "taps" and the end of the day.
>
> You can actually said: "Hey, here is your small server for your small
> office...right here in my pocket !!" "You can use it as media server,
> web server, backup server...". Take a look to cydia and the repositories.
>
> It has support for MMS and Video recording (yes..cycorder), IM (too many
> clients...you already have problems to choose one because of that), vlc,
> mplayer, mxtube (In fact...I downloaded the slackathon conferences with
> that), SIP, VoIP and a lot of other cool stuff. You can, from long time
> ago, personalize your ringtones without iTunes...so...that site is just
> the opinion from one guy that does not know wtf he is talking about.
>
> The actual point of the post was to have an iPhone/iPod Touch running as
> small SECURE server.
>
> It is running a BSD OS already...but not secure. That's the point of all
> this post.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Alvaro
