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Simple Route To Linux On The iPod

Posted by Zonk on from the penguin-in-your-pocket dept.

didde writes "MacWorld.com is showing users of the iPod a way to install and run Linux on their favorite portable music player. From the article: 'Imagine using your iPod and a regular old microphone to record studio-quality audio. Or sitting on a commuter train and playing Othello, Pong, Tetris, or Asteroids. All this and more is possible when you install Linux on your third-generation or earlier iPod. Best of all, one soft reset, and you're back in Apple's iPod operating system, listening to your tunes.' Sounds good to me. Now if I could just find my firewire connector..."

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  1. Running a webserver by moz25 · · Score: 4, Funny

    More importantly, we need to run a web server on it. No linux installation is complete without apache and PHP on it. Now if another ipod has a browser on it, then my ipod can serve webpages to your ipod.

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    1. Re:Running a webserver by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 5, Funny

      How many web servers do I need?

      I already have netBSD running a web server on my toaster!

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  2. Too pricey. by Kaenneth · · Score: 4, Funny

    A iPod is expensive enough, without having to pay another $699 to SCO.

  3. Re:why... by engine+matrix · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're new here right?

  4. Re:iPedantic by slavemowgli · · Score: 3, Funny

    Depends on the studio. ;)

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  5. Re:Open and Shut, Perhaps... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, he gives me a bad name too.

  6. Oh yeah?!? by PorkChopExxpress · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well I'm running Windows on my iPod Shuffle. Haven't blue-screened once.