A member of the iphone-dev has managed to reverse engineer the drivers of the iPhone to run a bootloader and Linux on it as well! Read the details here.
http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2008/11/linux-on-iphone.html
Now we should see some development of porting smaller distros and trying to implement the touch screen drivers and such. Also, a certain open source os *cough*Android*cough* could feasibly be ported to the iPhone hardware as well.
Exciting times to be an iPhone owner!
http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2008/11/linux-on-iphone.html
Now we should see some development of porting smaller distros and trying to implement the touch screen drivers and such. Also, a certain open source os *cough*Android*cough* could feasibly be ported to the iPhone hardware as well.
Exciting times to be an iPhone owner!