Friday, June 8, 2012

Project Magenta is Linux-based mobile OS that aims to replicate iOS on generic hardware

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Project Magenta is Linux-based mobile OS that aims to replicate iOS on generic hardware.
Without getting into too many details, here’s what little is known about this Open Source Magenta Project:
Magenta is an implementation of Darwin/BSD on top of the Linux kernel. It is made up of a number of kernel and userland components that work together. It is fully binary compatible with iPhone OS 5.0 (as in, it uses the same binary format).
It runs on ARM 7 Hardware currently. But what’s the goal?
The final goal is probably recreating the iPhone OS 1.0 stack. I think this is a pretty feasible goal, considering the fact that there are so many open source libs that can be used to replace the proprietary libs used by Apple. Just as an

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