How to Install Linux on iPod
Posted: Tuesday, January 30, 2007
by Zachary Black
So you want the most out of your iPod? In fact if you really think of it, your iPod is like a mini-computer. It has a hard drive, a screen, a soundcard and somewhat of a keyboard and mouse. It's just that your mini-computer is programmed to only play music. How about if I told you, you could actually play games, have software, watch videos (even on iPod's that aren't video capable by default) and do almost everything you can with a computer. Well it is possible if you install Linux on your iPod. Plus, you'll even have the choice of having your iPod in it's original version or to load your iPod with linux on it. What is Linux? Linux is an operating system, just like Windows and Mac OS X. It is what let's you interact with your computer and do what you want with it. Linux is actually widely used on webservers around the world. Chances are this website is hosted on a Linux server. It is known to be very stable and not bug at all. In all cases, if you want to install this baby on your iPod, it will permit you to do alot of stuff that you didn't know possible with your iPod. If you want to install it is pretty easy. First, set your iPod to be seen as a hard drive. Which is easily accomplished, just read my last article on my blog (link at bottom). Next, download the installer on the ipodlinux website. I recommend reading the documentation, but it's pretty straight forward. You plug-in your iPod, run the installer, and voilà, you've got iPodLinux working! Note, if your iPod doesn't seem to work well after the install, you can always recover it. I don't want to be held responsible if you mess your file system up when you put your iPod as a drive though, so do this at your own risk. Although I did it on mine and everything went great.
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