While many users use jailbreaking to customize their iPhone options, most agree to the same changes or the habit of installing third-party apps. However, one user shared an experience, and thanks to the licenses that the process allows, he decided change iOS operating system to Ubuntu.
The process was shared on Reddit by the user identified as [«newhacker1746] (https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kux9xx/success_iphone_7_with_dead_nand_netbooting/). This showed the result of changing the operating system of your iPhone 7, motivated by the outages it generated due to a problem in its internal memory. It was then that the user decided to try to install another operating system on the device. via USB Ethernet connection.
They replace iOS with Ubuntu on an iPhone 7
According to a note shared by 9to5mac, the process used the checkra1n jailbreak tool, which is based on the unpatchable hardware exploit “checkm8” and is so powerful that it offers much more than a package manager and access. snapshot to files. Preferred jailbreak settings.
In addition, the kernel used to run Ubuntu on the iPhone does not appear to be compatible with other chips besides the A10 Fusion, so this must be done on an iPhone 7.
After a very long and complicated process, the user realized successfully run arm64 version of Ubuntu 20.04 on iPhone. The result was shared in a video, showing the entire Ubuntu boot process before the phone finally appeared in the command line-based login interface.
While most users may never make this change, it is an interesting possibility that allows jailbreaking on Apple devices, just like other operating systems, after Android has been run on the. iPhone at other times.
