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Simple Route To Linux On The iPod
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..."
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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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!
It takes all types in this world. I sincerely mean it... This is just my perspective.
Note, however, that the current interface isn't nearly as slick as Apple's, and that audio playback and recording is still a bit glitchy. So you probably don't want to use Linux if all you do with your iPod is play music.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
AFAIK, the processor in iPod generations 1-3 isn't fast enough to decode Ogg Vorbis in realtime. However, that changed with the 4G, so once that generation is officially supported in iPodLinux, you should be able to play Ogg Vorbis on an iPod (albeit only some iPods).
Rockbox is a couple of years further along than ipodlinux, and the iRiver port from the Archos is proceeding nicely. I think the two projects have a friendly rivalry.
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Then Apple would essentially have to maintain 2 operating systems on the iPod when Apple could just as easily add the same features to the current iPod OS.
Besides, open source isn't going to help Apple over take Microsoft. Innovation, ease of use, and value will be a lot more effective.
Interesting since Apple has partnered with Microsoft to specifically undermine the open source community in Europe.
I'm sorry, but stating that you can record studio quality sound using an ipod is just inane. I mean it won't be terrible, but it'll be the same quality as any of the other small handheld recorders. I'm sure even a Soundblaster would do better at recording than an iPod.
A iPod is expensive enough, without having to pay another $699 to SCO.
4G and later iPods have been, in development, running at 110% realtime with the Tremor OGG player. So yes, recent iPods can play OGG. However, these iPods aren't officially supported yet.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipodlinuxinst
This is the link to the windows installer
Depends on the studio. ;)
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
(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.
If I want to play tetris, pong, etc, I'll use my PDA ...
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Sweet, so if *I* want to play tetris, pong, etc, I can use your PDA too?
No?
Oh, maybe saying that a free software install is worthless because you have hundreds of dollars of hardware that can do the job better isn't really that insightful, after all.
You could easily make all your playlists "smart playlists", and therefore tell all of your regular music playlists to not include Audiobook files, and tell your audiobook playlists to not include music files.
You can do the separation by using an id3tag editor and tag all your audiobook files to Vocal or something similar.
Smart playlists is a very powerful tool. Take advantage of it.