Mar
19
2008

iPod Linux

(Add / View Comments) (0)Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 08:51:21 pm
(Posted Under: Linux Linux, iPod)
Last night I gave in, and installed Linux onto my iPod. Something I've conceptually wanted to do since I got it, but hadn't because of the hassle of having to choose one OS or the other.

Funnily enough, looking into it, there are bootloaders that allow for dual booting. Perfect, or so it seemed. At first I tried Rockbox, which is relatively unobtrusive, sitting on the same FAT partition as everything else. Just a change to the bootloader. After that I decided it was worthwhile trying out iPod Linux. Which, with that 5th Generation iPod, was a more of a manual process. Which seemed worthwhile, until I got finished, to realise that iPod Linux does everything except play songs.

As much as the closed nature of Apple's firmware is (especially the lack of any documentation), the whole experience made me appreciate Apple's firmware. Just because it's nicer, despite any annoyances. Not that Rockbox was bad, hey it played songs - and I question that the sound quality was actually better than Apple's firmware - but the interface and convience is really worth just reverting back to only the Apple firmware. Despite how much I want to get a Hitter plugin on there, I'm happy to wait until I can do it on Apple's firmware - the iTunes import into Hitter isn't that bad.

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