phranker’s Think Tank

But it’s buggy as all hell. I recommend staying away from it until the bugs are worked out, or the dev teams release a true jailbreak.

It was released by Nate True, a good guy, but it’s not really a jailbreak. It’s a “soft upgrade”, meaning that he took the files from the 1.1.3 restore image directly from Apple and merged them into the filesystem. However, 1.1.3 has a lot of changes, most importantly, how the filesystem is strucured to operate. Apple added a user, mobile, and that user runs all the apps, instead of root which ran them in previous firmwares. This is a good thing that Apple did. It will help keep the apps people write from being able to destroy important system files.

However, Nate True’s release still has all apps being run by root, just as they were in previous firmwares, and that is causing a lot of problems with file/dir permissions. I hope to list some, if not all, of the problems with this jailbreak release by tomorrow.