George Hotz, who is perhaps a little better known as Geohot has offered his response to the Dev Team’s decision to wait until iPhone OS 3.1 is available before releasing a jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS and it has come in the form of his own jailbreaking tool.

“Normally I don’t make tools for the general public, and rather wait for the dev team to do it. But guys, whats up with waiting until 3.1? That isn’t how the game is played. We release, Apple fixes, we find new holes. It isn’t worth waiting because you might have the “last” hole in the iPhone. What last hole…this isn’t golf. I’ll find a new one next week.”

That’s right, he has released a tool by the name of “purplera1n” and it will allow anyone to jailbreak their iPhone 3GS running OS 3.0.

All things considered, the process seems pretty simple.

“To get started right now, go to purplera1n.com. Download it. Make sure you have windows(but not 7), the latest iTunes installed, and an iPhone 3GS with 3.0 firmware. Connect your iPhone normally. Click “make it ra1n”. Wait. On bootup, run Freeze, the purplera1n installer app. Hopefully you’ll figure out what to do from there.”

Of course, he was kind enough to point out that this is still a beta and that you should backup everything before you begin. As of now purplera1n is only available for Windows (except Windows 7), however according to a recent message on Twitter it looks like we may be seeing a Windows 7 and OS X version as early as next week.

“i’m going to sleep…partying this weekend…maybe monday for os x and win 7?

Unfortunately, it looks like I am going to have to wait to test this out. I am running OS X on my iMac and my only Windows option is on my Eee PC, which happens to be Windows 7 and while I miss my jailbroken iPhone it is not worth the time of a Windows XP installation.

That said, I would love to hear from anyone who is able and willing.

[UPDATE] It looks like we have an updated version of purplera1n to play with. Coming from a recent post over at iphonejtag the new version adds and improves support for Windows Vista, Windows 7, International and 64-bit. of course, the new version is still beta, but with Windows 7 that means I can now play. Hopefully all goes well.

Personally, I am not doing the whole wait in line thing this year. Instead I am going to make an attempt at a leisurely entrance sometime in the early morning hours. That said, I am not all that worried if I miss out today, I want the 3G S, but can also wait a few weeks if I had to.

Anyway, for those heading out this morning, you should hopefully already be at the destination of your choice because the doors at both Apple and AT&T were opening up at 7am this morning.

As for AT&T, the 7am opening time is just for those that pre-ordered the iPhone 3G S. For those that did not place a pre-order (like myself) and are hoping to still grab an iPhone today (like myself), then your time is 8am.

As for Apple, you may want to check your individual store on Apple.com, however it looks like most stores (and I am using the word most a little lightly) are set to open at 7am.

Additionally, AT&T has offered up a nice complete guide, which you can find over on ATT.com