Video Demonstration: Linux on an iPod

lifehacker.com ^ | 2/3/06

[martin_fierro]

Video Demonstration: Linux on an iPod

In his recent feature Get the most out of an old iPod, my co-editor Adam mentioned installing Linux on your iPod. This may seem like a crazy thing to do, but YouTube member greg1717 posted a video of his iPod running Linux in action, and it looks damn cool. After the jump, check out a video of browsing photos, playing video and playing games all on a 3G iPod.

[martin_fierro]

Link to video at source

[martin_fierro]

"BECAUSE IT CAN BE DONE" Ping

[neb52]

Now if IPods only came with WiFi/Bluetooth.

[snowsislander]

Now if IPods only came with WiFi/Bluetooth.

Well, it's not exactly the same thing, but you can run Linux on a wireless Linksys router: The Open Source WRT54G Story (from wi-fiplanet.com).

[neb52]

Yes I run a version of Satori on mine.

[antiRepublicrat]

Well, it's not exactly the same thing, but you can run Linux on a wireless Linksys router: The Open Source WRT54G Story (from wi-fiplanet.com).

Until recently, you're already running Linux if you bought one. But these projects do let you do some cool stuff with the WRT54G.

[joydoc]

IT SEEMS AS THOUGH NANCY POLOSI CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF MEN. SHE WAS PHOTOGRAPHED STROKING THE VICE-PRESIDENTS LEG AT THE ANNUAL SPEECH TO THE NATION.
WHAT'S WITH DEMOCRATS?


SEMPER FI,
Joy Thompson

[martin_fierro]

This *was* a thread about Linux and iPods.

Or hadn't you noticed.

[martin_fierro]

Get a load of this.

[Fierce Allegiance]

No, the subject here is Ipods, not...


Neva mind.

[Fierce Allegiance]

More of a saturday night kind of post than a tuesday morning post. Yikes.

[stainlessbanner]

I ran linux on my nano for a while. It's very cool, I had occassional boot-up errors on the distro I used, but nothing major. If you try it, just make sure you have the HP USB flash software.

Bonus - you can play doom and use command line!