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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. Re:Open and Shut, Perhaps... by aliasptr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Linux on iPod project has been around for awhile and in a usable state too. I guess it's just news because MacWorld is giving it press time. Which is awesome in a way because it'll introduce more people to it and hopefully encourage further development. The MP3 player skips a lot but and isn't really usable but it's very very cool. There's a video of a much older release running on my iPod on my website if anyone's interested. More power to Linux on the iPod. Especially cool because from my understanding the iPod has no MMU. Anyway... corrections are welcome!

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  2. cluster? by BobVila · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is there some way to cluster a several of these linux ipods together? That seems like the next logical step to me. Either that or running a web server on one.

  3. Re:Additional uses by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Guys, if you want a pocket hard-drive music player that does recording, has video playback, plays games, and has an inferior user experience to the iPod, just get an Archos Gmini 400 instead...

  4. Application Server by nurb432 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What would be cool is if you could run Xclients ( or i suppose cli stuff too ) on the ipod and use a 'local' pc to X11/Telnet to it..

    Take all your apps AND data with you as you travel...

    Yes, i know a laptop would do the same, but no where near the same formfactor...

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  5. Regular mics? What about binaural? by tsarin · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The notion that I could record 24/96 audio on my 'pod with a "regular mic" is ludicrous. I have a pair of Core Sound binaural microphones, however. Provided I had the disk space, am I wrong in thinking that might make a sweet kit for bootlegging concerts?

    (Yes, yes, bootlegging's naughty, blah, blah, blah.)

    I've been able to get reliably decent boots on my ancient (as in, bought in '98) Sharp MiniDisc, even considering how lossy ATRAC is. By clipping the mics to the ends of the bows of my glasses -- i.e., an inch away from my ear canals -- I get a recording that's damned near exactly what I heard live. Using my iPod instead would be ideal. AFAICT, the recording wouldn't be compressed, the bit- and sample-rates are vastly higher, I'd be able to extract it digitally by mounting the device as a disk and venue security probably wouldn't look twice at an iPod.

    I think I know what I'm doing this weekend.