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Terra Soft Offers Linux-booting iPods, FW Drives

Posted by timothy on from the no-no-booting-your-mac dept.

Kai Staats of Terra Soft writes "We are pleased to now offer support for bootable iPods and FireWire drives, enabling a highly portable Linux on PowerPC environment." Note that this is about booting a Macintosh into Linux, not running Linux on the iPod.

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  1. dead as a doorknob. by MORTAR_COMBAT! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    too bad, sounded like an interesting article.

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    MORTAR COMBAT!
    1. Re:dead as a doorknob. by pilgrim23 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      "Indeed too bad", he said, pointing at the slidey, line thing on his slipstick that seems to be stuck in place... "Cursor's foiled again!" and I SOOO wanted Linux on my iPod gen 1, ...and XP on my Newton too..

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  2. pist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    pisty frosty pist!?!!?

  3. So noted. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks, timothy.

  4. Great! by northcat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now we can play 384 different versions of tetris on our iPods!

  5. ipod cluster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It seems they need a bootable ipod cluster to withstand the /. effect.

  6. Re:Shameless plug by isometrick · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    A lot less than the $0 I paid them to try to get this posted.

    I know, but the thread had the word "shameless" in it, mod me down if you must.

  7. Re:Shameless plug by isometrick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Less" is "more". Ahem.