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Linux for iPod Matures

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-hack-on dept.

elinenbe writes "The Linux on iPod Project has just crossed a milestone. Currently their firmware works on all ipod models other then the new mini. Sound plays and for many people it has more features then the original iPod firmware!"

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  1. Command line? by cujo_1111 · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do you use a command line interface on an ipod?

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    1. Re:Command line? by McCrapDeluxe · · Score: 5, Funny

      Scrollwheel moves through a list of letters. Middle button confirms selected letter.

    2. Re:Command line? by System.out.println() · · Score: 4, Funny

      The scroll/touch wheel wouldn't be too hard to turn into a keyboard. spinspinspin TAP spinspinspinspin TAP, you've got "ls".

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    3. Re:Command line? by End11 · · Score: 2, Funny

      TELNET?? surely thats insecure!!
      i'll just have to wait untill they get openbsd running on it, with ssh

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  2. And with the AAC announcment... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe apple really is an "open" company, they just didnt want anyone to know =)

  3. Sighs... by moosesocks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me reiterate this for the last time.

    On an MP3 player, the ability to run EMACS is not a feature. The lack of music-playing ability also seems like a pitfall.

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    1. Re:Sighs... by leomekenkamp · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why not? I also use EMACS on my home machine to play music...

      (ducks)

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    2. Re:Sighs... by magpie · · Score: 2, Funny

      Your right, but the ability to run VI is an essential.

      *ducks*

  4. Re:Oh man that tickles my linux bone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll settle for Easter OGGs

  5. Re:Why?? by cujo_1111 · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, you are wrong. Only *BSD is dying...

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  6. Linux on an iPod? by Perdition · · Score: 5, Funny

    Begun the "KDE looks better on iPod than Gnome" war has.

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  7. Re:Oh man that tickles my linux bone by cujo_1111 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The OGG player runs at 80% of normal speed. So when you play rave music it sounds like house music, when you play speed metal music it sounds like metal music but when you play pop music it still sounds like crap.

    If only they could get the OGG player to play at 150% speed, then all music would be chipmunk music...

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  8. Re:Lots of possibilities by cujo_1111 · · Score: 2, Funny

    a webserver in the palm of your hand

    You are gonna need one hell of an firewire extension cord when you are on the go...

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  9. Who put Tux into that little box? by Xilo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anybody know if he's claustrophobic? Such a little window, geez..

    Next generation power for iPods.. Tux running on an exercise wheel?

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    1. Re:Who put Tux into that little box? by Damiano · · Score: 3, Funny

      Umm... Tux doesn't *need* Windows.

  10. Re:Just dandy... now I can...? by dasmegabyte · · Score: 5, Funny

    I propose a theorum: It does not matter how expensive a device is, some nerd will castigate and cripple it for no readily explainable reason other than pure anarchic hubris.

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  11. Obligatory Emacs Comment by Mr.G5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good thing they make a 40 gig iPod, you'll need it to fit on Emacs! :-)

  12. Re:There's even a port of the 2.6 kernel... by mikeee · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, other than the storage and display it's fine?

  13. Re:Im sorry if i don't quite get it by Bobdoer · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Hey, you stupid kids, stop poking well enough and leave him alone!"

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  14. It may just be me... by Perdition · · Score: 5, Funny

    But if you could get that Beethoven conducted by a robot illegally downloaded onto your Beowulf cluster of Linux iPods and played it back through your sake-soaked wooden speakers as Cowboy Neal dances like an insensitive clod, I believe this site would somehow slashdot itself.

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  15. What happened to the NetBSD port to iPod? by gatesh8r · · Score: 2, Funny

    The last time I heard it was after the ENIAC port which is after the PDP-7 which is after...

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  16. Re:Lots of possibilities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You sound like an asshole. Are you an asshole? I'm just saying because you really sound like one, is all.

  17. Re:Just dandy... now I can...? by moxruby · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then you could stream music from your computer or over the internet while wearing it around the house.

    Back in my day, we had no fancy shmancy ipods to wear around the house. We just turned the volume on the stereo up.

  18. Re:There's even a port of the 2.6 kernel... by loginx · · Score: 5, Funny

    There might also be a few problems with the audio not working...

    Everything else appears th be just fine though...

  19. Re:There's even a port of the 2.6 kernel... by Dun+Malg · · Score: 5, Funny
    And input is still glitchy....

    ...but other than that, we're aces all around.

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  20. Re:Its all about aesthetics by Basehart · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, you just don't get it!

  21. Re:Its all about aesthetics by b17bmbr · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a typical slashdot type, hell, programming pays my bills

    if programming actually pays your bills, you're not a typical /. type.

    (ducks)

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  22. Re:Oh man that tickles my linux bone by Drakonian · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have *very* good reason to believe the iPod hardware is sufficient to play MP3s at real-time. ;)

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  23. Re:There's even a port of the 2.6 kernel... by capmilk · · Score: 2, Funny
    > What would anybody want in a Linux system besides the BASH prompt??

    A tcsh prompt.

  24. Re:Linux on an iPod? Er, why? by Bob+The+Cowboy · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's not as if you get a discount on your iPod for running Linux.


    I for one am waiting for the protests and petitions demanding to be able to buy an iPod without an iPodOS tax...
  25. Re:Lots of possibilities by Napoleon+Blownapart · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wrote a webserver that ran on a 3G mobile phone once. Is that cool?

  26. Re:Its all about aesthetics by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 2, Funny

    People don't buy harleys because they want a good bike they get one because they think it makes them cool and rebellious.

    Fuck that belt-driven piece of shit. So much power loss, and it makes the single part that connects the engine to the drive wheel a regular maintenance replacement. Give me anything else, a chain, (preferably) a shaft, but not that belt. Harley owners are frequently proud of that belt. Can't figure out why, it's the single most annoying point of failure on those bikes.

    I can make any bike sound like a Harley, but I don't want *noise*. I want comfort and weight on my bike. I want to be able to cruise at 70 without having to bend over and put my forehead on the handle bars, and I don't want to be driven deaf by the exhaust noise to do it. Yeah, yeah, loud pipes save lives and all. Riding smart will do more for you than any pipe noise.

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  27. Re:Im sorry if i don't quite get it by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what do you have to smoke (and how much of it) before that sounds like it's playing at the correct speed?

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  28. Re:Its all about aesthetics by MikeHunt69 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Powerful? You and I must have ridden a different harley. That twist grip on the right handlebar isn't a throttle my friend... it's a volume control.