Espectr0 writes "Following the recent iTunes update, someone has been able to install the iPod update from Linux! The article explains how to hack the iPod's firmware in order to get it installed which is required to take advantage of new features in iTunes 4.5 and the iTunes Music Store."
This is something that can help some linux users out. Though, it would appear if you have to use a windows computer to this in the first place you mine as well update your firmware that way. Perhaps use this method to backup your pre-existing firmware? I've not seen the.exe, can anyone tell me if it has an option to backup your old firmware?
Woo, awesome! Now we can use Linux to load a firmware update that lets us take advantage of new features for iTunes! All that's missing is the ability to run iTunes on Linux!
Bunch of rocket scientists, these guys.
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Bunch of rocket scientists, these guys.
Who peed in your kernel today?
In other 'Just Becasue You Can' news...
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Install Garage Door with Cruise Missile Install votive candle with Forklift Install new batteries in Outer Space
Get two ipods, so when some Anonymous Coward comes along and says, "well, yeah, but does it run linux?" You can poke his eye out with a sharp stick and then explain to him that the one with the new firmware which you updated from linux does not actually run linux but the other one sort of kind of runs linux command line it you log into it remotely...
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Is Slashdot destined to be be have endless pointless updates to this particular story ("Linux for iPod now supports a new font")? Why not come back when the damn thing actually does something useful?
Pl.
I'd be a good reason.
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I went to their competition and have been singing the praises of the Karma ever since. I'm coercing a lot of friends that the iPod is overexpensive for the size, with less useful features and a few annoyances due to esthetics (I can feel around my karma blindly without accidentally skipping to the next track). Now I tell all my friends not to waste their money with Apple.
And to think that all that happened simply because I was looking for something with decent linux support.
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This is something that can help some linux users out. Though, it would appear if you have to use a windows computer to this in the first place you mine as well update your firmware that way. Perhaps use this method to backup your pre-existing firmware? I've not seen the .exe, can anyone tell me if it has an option to backup your old firmware?
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Woo, awesome! Now we can use Linux to load a firmware update that lets us take advantage of new features for iTunes! All that's missing is the ability to run iTunes on Linux!
Bunch of rocket scientists, these guys.
Install Garage Door with Cruise Missile
Install votive candle with Forklift
Install new batteries in Outer Space
Hmm. So now updating your iPod from a non-mainstream OS is illegal?
Of course not! iPods update from MacOS, too!
*ducks*
Constitutional rights may be respected, repealed, or modified; but they must never be ignored.
Get two ipods, so when some Anonymous Coward comes along and says, "well, yeah, but does it run linux?" You can poke his eye out with a sharp stick and then explain to him that the one with the new firmware which you updated from linux does not actually run linux but the other one sort of kind of runs linux command line it you log into it remotely...
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
I'm out of cash so I can't test.
:)
Dude! it's only 99c!
Is illegal hacking really the best way to show our gratitude, after all of the great things Apple and its iPod have done for us?
Please, Apple/Steve Jobs can not walk on water, part the seas, or turn water into beer.
Only Linus Torvalds can do these things.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Is Slashdot destined to be be have endless pointless updates to this particular story ("Linux for iPod now supports a new font")? Why not come back when the damn thing actually does something useful?
Pl.
I went to their competition and have been singing the praises of the Karma ever since. I'm coercing a lot of friends that the iPod is overexpensive for the size, with less useful features and a few annoyances due to esthetics (I can feel around my karma blindly without accidentally skipping to the next track). Now I tell all my friends not to waste their money with Apple.
And to think that all that happened simply because I was looking for something with decent linux support.
Karma: Non-Heinous