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Booting an x86 Virtual Machine from an iPod

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday August 16, 2005 @04:11PM from the what-happened-to-communing-with-nature dept.

randomjohndoe writes "IBM has taken the next logical extension of booting Linux from a flash drive. Researchers were recently able to boot Knoppix from an iPod and run an x86 virtual machine in VMware, which provided an easy way to encrypt the whole operating environment. The tests were conducted on a 60GB iPod photo using Knoppix."

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Re:umm, ok, that's never been done before! by oddbudman · 2005-08-16 16:41 · Score: 0, Redundant

Good to see someone actually understood the significance of this project.

The amount of ignorant hate going on in this thread is a sad reflection on the state of much of the slashdot community. Lay off the haterade ppl and stop being such a bunch of ignorant apple fanboys.