Does anyone have linux on their iPod?

[MrZucchiniHead]

i was reading popsci this month and seen that you can put linux on your iPod. this makes me want to get an ipod cause you can play Doom, and theres a NES and gameboy emulator.

just wondering if anyone here has linux on there iPod?

here's the site: http://ipodlinux.org/Main_Page
(it looks like wiki, i got confused when i was first there.)

 

[The General]

Yeah, when I had my colour 20gb iPod, I could play Doom on it. It was cool, playing mp3's didn't work, but I could play Doom.


You can turn an iPod Nano into a video iPod Nano with it.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6634416976678356608&q=video+ipod+nano
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6974467646937874348&q=video+ipod+nano

 

[MrZucchiniHead]

You can turn an iPod Nano into a video iPod Nano with it.

then why dosent apple make an iPod nano video and make millions more?

 

[Alvin.C]

Re:

Hello,

I installed ipodlinux on my iPod Nano. Was good. Can change themes but I found them really plain and 2D looking.

Put some videos on. Pretty cool watching videos on a nano. Problems are that the video files have to be RAW so they consume tonnes of space (I only have a 2GB nano)...plus short battery life for backlighting and processing when playing videos.

I wiped the ipod and tried Linux Rockbox: http://www.rockbox.org/ (from Daily Build section).

Better interface I though, looks better. More features too. But no video playback as of when I tested it out.

Gone back to Apple's Firmware however...much more practical for listening to music I find.

 

[macdude425]

Not practical for me as I own a Shuffle. Not only is there no screen, they are having trouble porting gcc to the arch of the proc it uses.

 

[PP Mguire]

I have no uses for Apple products period

 

[tommyboy123x]

I have no uses for Apple products period

 

[Disillusion]

I installed Ipod Linux on my brothers 30GB Ipod Video. It uses a boot loader so you can either boot the original Apple software for listening to music or boot to Linux for playing games and screwing around.

 

[PP Mguire]

Why get an Ipod Video if your going to listen to music? But that seems like a more logical thing to do, the dual boot thingy.

 

[Disillusion]

Why get an Ipod Video if your going to listen to music?

Because you can watch videos or listen to music.

It's got 30GB and it's only got 13GB of music on it. Plenty of room for videos.