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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. *looks around* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, no one's here.

  2. Re:Open and Shut, Perhaps... by codeviking · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How did this get modded Interesting?

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  3. Re:Open and Shut, Perhaps... by StormKrow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He's bitter. he lost his Ipod shuffle up his butt and too proud to go get it removed. So he walks around all cranky and bitter, with no music. (unless he eats a lot of fiber that might brush across the buttosn, but usually that only makes him hear Copa Cabana blaring from his butt, and that'd make anyone bitter.

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