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Latest Version of iPodLinux Reviewed
Demolition writes "The latest release of the iPod-Linux Installer has been reviewed on Accelerate Your Mac!, a popular Mac performance/modification site. As mentioned in previous Slashdot articles, the iPodLinux Project is an open source venture devoted to porting Linux to Apple's iPod. In a nutshell, the reviewer finds that the iPodLinux Project has progressed a long way from its early proof-of-concept days."
Is it digitally signed?
From the "because you can, and really no other reason" department.
More like from the "counting the days until the lawsuit" department.
Not really. This is a very important project because there are several autonomous surveillance vehicles (ASVs) which will be deployed by the military that use the same basic architecture of the iPod for one of their flight control systems. It turns out that for long transcontinental flights, the little Lego pilot inside the ASV needs about 10 hours of music to keep him alert during the mission. Porting Linux to the iPod ensures that ASVs will be able to fly long after the iPod craze peters out and Apple goes out of business.
I think they were hosting the site on an iPod.
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Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11)
I mean, my GOD. It's almost like NetBSD. Next thing you know, there'll be Linux vibrators!
Hmm...
Suddenly I want to be a sysadmin!
Farewell! It's been a fine buncha years!
In a nutshell, the reviewer finds that the iPodLinux Project has progressed a long way from its early proof-of-concept days.
Looks like it has support for the "back" and "stop" buttons. Support for the "play" button should be available shortly. But it plays OGG!
For as much as they take from FreeBSD, they give nothing back.
Let's not forget high-paying jobs for all those core developers....
And quite a bit of Darwin code that you're free to roll into your own "BSD for PPC" distro.
And the wine, the wine goes without saying.
And the aquaeducts.
But apart from the wine, the medicine, the acqueducts, and the peace, what has Apple done for us?
So if I run a thousand of these in parallel do I get a microcomputer instead of a supercomputer?
Sometimes my arms bend back.
a pair made for each other.
If you didn't have that 'LOL' tacked on at the end, you'd probably have a +5 Insightful comment here. However, since this has remained at 0 for more than an hour, I think you must have confused the moderators. "Hmmm, sounds insightful but it might be a trap! Better leave it alone lest my moderating priveledges be damned to hell by m2."
iBecause iTs iCool, iDon't iYou iSee?
WARNING: DO NOT LET DR. MARIO TOUCH YOUR GENITALS. HE IS NOT A REAL DOCTOR!
My apologies, the mods who participated have been sacked.