After reverse engineering by developers, the iPhone 7 has recently been successfully installed with postmarketOS, making it the first Apple Linux smartphone. And now, they've managed to unlock another feature from the command line to the graphical user interface (GUI).
The head of the project, Onny, said in a blog post “Since the last post about running postmarketOS Linux on iPhone 7, I was finally able to mount and run larger and persistent system images from the iPhone system memory. Therefore I used the same technique Corellium was using in their Android build for the iPhone 7. Further, ephemeral write support for postmarketOS is achieved by using OverlayFS.”
As shown in the photo, Linux distributions can now launch various graphical window managers, such as Weston.
If you're also interested in this operation and want to try it out on your own phone, you can visit this blog and read the brand new step-by-step guide.
The project also makes enabling and connecting to other devices via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi less distant, as Corellium has implemented the same functionality in its custom kernel.
