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- Remmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I believe he was speaking of the article.
"2. Go into the shell thingy ( Sorry, i don't know much about linux)"
Someone should BASH his head in. :) - chrisgac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I think I am still missing this whole "linux on the ipod" thing. I'm not sure if I see a good reason for it."
The reason I'm excited about it is I see many shortcomings in the apple UI. I want everything to be more configurable, i want a black screen with white text, I want advanced playlist options (i.e. play all songs that are sad), I want to delete songs without having to sync it. I want to have the star rating one-click away, and have it have ten stars instead of five. I want the ability to make the current song's album art the screen background.
I want a lot of things that Apples UI doesn't give me. Until Apple releases a dev. kit (which proabably won't happen) I can put linux on it, I can program it, and other will contributes, and it will do what I want. - vypergts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like how it says "This is a very simple guide on doing this throgh windows xp."
Then, Step 1: "Boot into linux"
Live cd or no, it's still technically linux.
lmao - MikeEFresh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Someone should BASH his head in. :)
Aahahaha - Riggs54, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is more of a guide to REMOVE ipod linux from your nano...
I read that in the ipodlinux.org forums yesterday. It was in a thread to remove it, becuase there is not a way to do it from winblows yet.
Title is wrong - xenlab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0for me iPodLinux is all about the line in recording.
- fanboydcs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0its useful because it can see any files on the drive and open them, so if its a picture it opens it, if its a mp3 or ogg or anything else it plays it. There is also a line in at 44hz so you can make cd quality recordings. (by just using the headphone jack) And also it allows you to play games like tetris. Another cool thing is they were able to get video to play on the ipod photo and the ipod nano.. How cool is that?
- dylanA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i installed it on my mini, and have idoom working perfectly.
- vypergts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I tried putting linux on my 60 gb photo so i could watch video but I found it still too confusing at this point. The headache of taking 7 hours of my life trying to get the damn thing to reboot after it got locked up just isn't worth it. That, and ipodlinux.com's downloads weren't working so well.
Good potential though. - pseudojd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0can someone who knows what they are talking about answer me this? if I do this to my ipod can I reinstall the apple OS on it if I choose? thanks.
- Singee15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0me?
im on linux right now. What about my statement in anyway implies that I don't know what I'm talking about? - TheStooge1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Don't get me wrong... cool dig and cool find. I'll dig it simply because I like to know all the devices that I can load Linux on.
But, I still don't get it....
Why? So you can listen to songs? Er, I thought that's what the iPod Nano lived for. So you can see pictures? Hmm...
I guess if you want to watch video or see pics on a 176 x 132 pixel screen then... ummm..okay.
But regardless of my confusion, keep the devices that we can hack coming! - OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I bet I can install Linux through Mac OS X using this technique. Just need to run Ubuntu/PPC instead. you can also "run" Linux on an iPod shuffle using these directions. How boring.
- Vryz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Reasons why I have Linux on my ipod:
You can dual boot to the old OS so you don't lose anything.
You can record audio at high quality. This rules!
You can delete files from the ipod without synching.
You can play formats the ipod doesn't support, and will probably never support.
You can play a bunch of stupid games, including doom and gameboy games. - BenStockwell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I think I am still missing this whole "linux on the ipod" thing. I'm not sure if I see a good reason for it.
If wanting to play doom on your ipod is a good enough reason (which, don't get me wrong, it may be) then go for it, otherwise I think i'll stick to the packaged os."
The biggest reason for me, is so that I can play all my FLAC, and Ogg files on it. Apple isn't too keen on supporting open formats on their iPods. - odracir123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I found a way aswell
http://ipodlinux.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3847
kept getting the no podzilla screen until i tried this. definitely works on 2 gigs. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WHAT THE HECK!? This was copy+pasted straight from the ipod linux ports, and it doesn't install Linux, it supposedly fixes it if you've made a mistake and its bricked.
Doing the above will not install linux at all.
Josh - BenStockwell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^^ Read above post.
- planticus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Whats the point!
- EmmaWatsonIsHot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Link is broken, no digg. Just google install linux ipod ifu wanna do this
- kJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what the hell are you all talking about? The guy that posted this must have been on crack. The actual link that that site linked too is here:
http://opax.swin.edu.au/~reino/nanolinux.htm
It's an OSX install guide not Windows XP.
If you follow it you will INSTALL linux on your iPod not UNINSTALL it. (Riggs45 and TheJosher = dumbasses)
You don't need linux installed on your Mac/PC nor do you need a Live Linux CD. This is simply an OSX walkthrough.
I followed this to the letter with barely and knowledge of UNIX commands and it worked first try on my black 2gig nano. I even downloaded iDoom and it runs flawlessly.
Gosh - omnithrope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why?
- Nidhi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Test comments
- dixonr315, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Apple isn't too keen on supporting open formats on their iPods."
AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, these are closed? - spazzium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they appear to have change the guide since I last visited
- slickrate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i dont see a tutorial for XP anywhere on that site.
- anethema, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0MP3 is a closed propriatary format and any commercial product using it is required to pay license to Fraunhofer. The others are (i believe) free. AIFF was developed by apple but not sure about how free it is..AAC is open and was not developed by apple, and WAV is just raw PCM data so it is of course, open.
- Singee15, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I think I am still missing this whole "linux on the ipod" thing. I'm not sure if I see a good reason for it.
If wanting to play doom on your ipod is a good enough reason (which, don't get me wrong, it may be) then go for it, otherwise I think i'll stick to the packaged os. - vdub12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I like the fact that someone that dosnt know Linux that good is preaching so much about it.
Poser. - TheAttacks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This link is more useful.
http://ipodlinux.org/Main_Page
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