Cydia for the iPhone - New Aplpication/Package Installer

Just released more info to come soon as well as some other great stuff

who said the dev;s were sleeping

I know it should be in native Apps, but this is big news


OHHH i forgot, here is how to install:

set auto lock to never
add apptapp.saurik.com/alpha.xml to your installer sources
look for Cydia Packager - follow instructions

Install at your own risk this is new, but i have not had any probs.. still tip toeing around









Credits:
Cydia by Jay Freeman,

Looks very nice, I look forward to seeing how this pans out, it has a lot of potential, just the space it consumes, 35MB sounds steep.

Any packages available in the repository yet?

yes allot !!!

and allot of familiar faces


I guess this is not news till engadget or gizmodo reports it lol

i don't see nothing new!

you installed it?

it is open source and it has search, replaces the need for BSD susbsyste, and has other great features, here is a quote from teh dev:

probelems with bsd..

• bash - commands are truncated (and executed) before they have been fully typed
• chmod/chown - always exits with the message "memory exhausted"
• nc/ping - fails to resolve some hostnames and claims "Unknown server error"
• netstat - does not show any useful information on local domain sockets
• passwd - damages the BSD /etc/passwd file, breaking SpringBoard on 1.1.3
• screen - unable to find common terminal types such as "linux" using terminfo
• vim - syntax highlighting is absent and backspace crashes the editor

An Open Alternative

In order to provide some relief for these issues, I have decided to start a project called Telesphoreo with the goal of creating a distribution of GNU and BSD's userspace for the iPhone as a collaborative, open-source project. The name is an ancient Greek word meaning "to bring fruit to perfection or maturity", which I feel is what needs to be done to Apple's product: it's passable as a phone, but as a portable workstation it is almost unmatched... with the right software.



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many have asked why I felt the need to create a "new" application distribution system (porting APT) rather than using the existing, widely deployed solution. The fact that it will someday be open source is then cited as a reason to not "fork" the efforts of iPhone developers.I feel the best response is simply to provide some perspective: Cydia/APT does not conflict with Installer. I run both on my phone and have a large amount of software installed via Installer. There are currently no known compatibility issues between applications that expect BSD Subsystem to be installed and devices running Telesphoreo, and no reason to suspect anything major on that front. Finally, no one is forcing anyone, packagers and users alike, to start using Cydia instead of Installer.

im interested in figuring out the dependencies or duplicate subsystem? Im all for implimenting a more stable unix package for the phone. just worried about duplicate subsystem?

or is the package bugfixes/overwrites the bsd 2.0 system...

*wonder*

i'll try when it will be fully tested!!
your opinion it's not enough.

lol, ok deter lol, ok hehehe, head over to irc and start tooting your horn


from the developer

I feel the best response is simply to provide some perspective: Cydia/APT does not conflict with Installer. I run both on my phone and have a large amount of software installed via Installer. There are currently no known compatibility issues between applications that expect BSD Subsystem to be installed and devices running Telesphoreo, and no reason to suspect anything major on that front. Finally, no one is forcing anyone, packagers and users alike, to start using Cydia instead of Installer.

i too am running both Installer and Cydia, and have installed apps with both prior and post installing Cydia and purposly installed apps after that require bsd (dock etc) and they work (how you think i took the screen shots )

calm down
you are free to support anything you like,and i'm free to say what i like.
lol i don't use irc!wait for me there!!

bezman,
can you PM me the link to developer page.
Thanks

edit: is it http://www.saurik.com/