Is it Linux running on an iPad? Yes ... and no. It's not what I was expecting either, but it is awesome, it is real (minimal) Linux, and it works in Safari on iOS 5.1 (takes 45 seconds to boot on mine ...

Development work on this latest Linux-on-iDevices effort is still in its early days. The photos that the developers shared both show a basic boot process that fails because it can't mount a filesystem ...