So, I stumbled on a new app today: Cydia (http://www.saurik.com/id/1) - Basically, this is a port of the Debian APT system to the iPhone. From my early uses of it, it seems to work really well. The link I provided above explains more indepth about why it is better then the Installer.app, but they work well together I've found. My biggest reason for this is because it does a much much better job of porting over bash and all the accompanying tools. The shells all work properly, and there are -tons- of various command line apps that you can install to turn this handy little device in to a mobile unix platform. In addition, it includes a port of Java as well as an implementation of X/11. I've yet to try the X/11 yet, as I believe it needs to be routed to an external X server, but still, could be quite useful.
I highly recommend picking this package up. It's under Utilities in the Installer.app, listed as Cydia Packager.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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