(Just a parenthesis here: From first-hand experience, I can say there's not much "unwinding" involved in trying to reverse-engineer Apple devices. They make you slowly go mad :D)
On 31 August 2012 12:00, Phillip Simbwa <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why buy an iPhone and install Linux on it, when there's Android > available? > > Just for the sake of being a hardcore hacker? LOL. Why not use that > > hardcore-ness to hack the Linux kernel! > > Hmmmm, good point. > Sometimes its not about being hardcore, but just being curious.. Think > of it as a pet project to help you unwind after a long day. And the > Linux kernel is a good suggestion but hey -- its a case of preference > and thats what makes us human. > > > And just because Linus runs Linux on his Macbook means nothing. He's not > > the epitome of best decisions is he? > > Definitely not! But i was illustrating something different. We are > looking at the same coin but from different sides. > The idea was to isolate the Apple (the company), the product -- which > can be further broken down to hardware & software. > > Linus using openSuSE (apparently he is searching for another distro to > use) on the Air was just to show that this chap is objective. He likes > the hardware -- truth be told, but he preferred Linux running off it. > With that, i hoped to show the divide between Apple and C programming > tutorials for the iOS. > > > All this is besides the point. The point is the usefulness of (or need > for) > > discussing i-devices on a Linux mailing list. > > I totally agree with you. Hope you didn't skip my earlier post though. > > Anyways, in that post; i pointed out four (4) things > > 1. V was just sharing a link to a c programming resource (he wasn't > soliciting for a discussion or help what so ever). If someone shares > something with you, you can take it or leave it. But when you don't > take it, you don't step on it (you never know, someone else may want > it). > > 2. The subject line had "[OT]" and that by all standards is very > polite. Can configure mail filters to consume all those messages in > the OT species. > > 3. Its ok for everyone on the list to not respond to "OT" posts or > just respond with "Thank you but i love Linux". And eventually, the > authors of such OT messages will drop the habbit or will look > elsewhere. > Remember the mental /dev/null trick??? > > 4. Knowledge isn't the product. You can have some knowledge in reverse > engineering iOS device drivers when you don't own or don't want to > have an iPhone/iPad. And that can come in handy somewhere. > Remember when Linux was running off reverse engineered code to > read/write to NTFS partitions? Then eventually, the full support was > done by Tuxera... catch my drift? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuxera > > But again it you notice, we are in agreement 90% of the time with just > a few things we are looking at differently. > > > -- > - Phillip. > > “Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in > waht > oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist > and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. > The rset can be a toatl mses and > you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed > ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe and the biran fguiers it > out aynawy." > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. >
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