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Linux on the iPod
An anonymous reader writes "Linux Devices reports that Linux now runs on an Apple iPod. Further information about the project can be found on the Linux on iPod Website." Still lacks features like power management and firewire support, but it's still a cool project. CT Ok it's a dupe. But it's still neat!
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict Linux on the iPod's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux on the iPod faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux on the iPod because Linux on the iPod is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux on the iPod. As many of us are already aware, Linux on the iPod continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Linux on the iPod leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Linux on the iPod. How many users of Linux on the iPod are there? Let's see. The number of Linux on the iPod versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Linux on the iPod users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Linux on the iPod posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put Linux on the iPod at about 80 percent of the Linux on the iPod market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Linux on the iPod users. This is consistent with the number of Linux on the iPod Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Linux on the iPod went out of business and was taken over by Linux on the iPod who sell another troubled OS. Now Linux on the iPod is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Linux on the iPod has steadily declined in market share. Linux on the iPod is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux on the iPod is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Linux on the iPod continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux on the iPod is dead.
Linux on the iPod is dying
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The dupe problem is getting much worse, not better..
The same story HOURS apart.
Arg!
4 stories down on the front page -- is that a new record?
--DrH, the Sandwich with the Ph.D.
... in order to turn off CmdrDupe's posts.
You know it's going to be a slow news day when they're duping articles that are still on the front page! Sheesh...
...but I want to stay on topic, so I will add something.
I like the idea of this, but I am not sure how useful a machine like this is. The viewport is very small [but you can remote X11 in the future, I imagine], you'd have to make your own keyboard/mouse work with the remote, etc.
That being said, using the iPod as a wearable could be interesting
Blocklevel: Practical Information Architecture
Y reports that Linux now runs on x. Further information about the project can be found on the Linux on x website. Still lacks features like a, b, and c, but it's still a cool project.
Man, I'm glad I haven't paid for a subscription...
I hear they've got Linux running on the iPod. I think there's an article on Slashdot...
That's it! CmdrTaco is viewing Slashdot on the screen of an iPod running Linux, which is why he never noticed that the story he's about to post was posted a couple of hours ago - the screen is too small to see them!
Well, I can't tell, since the site is slashdotted, but does this mean that there's already 2 Linux distros avialible for the Ipod?
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include support for playing mp3s, using the controls or accessing the screen. But it _does_ run linux.
:).
In other news, Craftsman is making a new line of hammers made entirely out of wood. No support has been announced for iron or steel heads, either clawed or ball-peen. You can't hammer with them, but they ARE made out of wood.
This was stupid the first time they posted it, too
Hey freaks: now you're ju
CmdrTaco is in the running for the role of Jimmy Two-Times for the remake of Goodfellas.
Film at 11
and again at 12.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
I just read a story related to this on slashdot, that there's Linux on the iPod. I'm off to go post a story on slashdot about the story I just read on slashdot.
IMO the best browser game ever http://wittyrpg.com
Here's my suggestion, once an editor notes a duplicate story, change its category to "dupe" then allow users to filter out "dupes" from their pages (haven't seen a JonKatz rant in years...). Or would this get rid of too many ad-views?
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Yes, it's neat, but it's still a dupe!
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
A man can smile and smile and yet still be a villian. Should we not attribute malice where incompetence will do?
Can we compare free software to propriatory software elswhere to imagine where this will go?
Propriatory software:
Free software
So what you have is a 10 gigabyte system that you can walk around with running free software. While MP3 is a propriatory format, OGG will work just fine with 10 gigs. What kind of interface does it have? Fire wire? USB? I can imagine all sorts of cool things you can do with that, such as rig any piece of hardware you want to it. The thing that is staring you in the face is that linux was ported to the device in the first place.
Craftsman is making a new line of hammers made entirely out of wood.
You are not looking at a wooden hammer in the iron age, you are looking at a V2 in the age of black powder and cannons. While you are busy thinking about busting down walls with projectiles, others are figuring out how to get to Mars.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
Alright!! Linux is running on an iPod! This means we can... uh...
I wonder what sort of effect duplicate articles have on the Slashdot Effect? I'm looking forward to that essay.