jeez, a ton of people must have received ipods over the last month, everyone keeps sending in ipod hacks. here's one that /. covered earlier, putting linux on your ipod. i had played with this before, but this version is pretty solid, new games, sound, recording, image viewing (see picture above) on 3g ipods, and you can dual boot. it's kinda cool to dual boot and geek out with some penguin flavored ipod, i suspect all the features not in our ipods now might eventually show up on custom builds like this later.
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(Page 1)2. mobileexile: "i ran the installer and it worked like a charm. i then put my company logo on my ipod. ever so cool..." WHat kind of iPod do you have?? Does this linux hack work with the U2 ipod, has anyone tried it??
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Mirthless
3. DO you have any cracks for the MINI IPOD????
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Ajaxward
4. ummm, this *is* ipod.hackaday.com...
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Jamesus
5. i ran the installer and it worked like a charm. i then put my company logo on my ipod. ever so cool...
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by mobilexile
6. I don't think the installer works with OSX 10.3.7 I tried installing and I got an error, "unable to find path to iPod", or similar. I tried with another mac using 10.3.6 and it worked (kind of: there is a kernel panic on boot into Linux, but the installer *did* run). I tried again with the second Mac after an update to 10.3.7 and now I get the same "path not found" error with both. Anyone else?
7. Umm, if you don't like the iPod stuff, don't visit this site, simple as that people.
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by iPod owner
8. Hey, when the Dell DJ has hacks, those will be here too.
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by me
9. Umm, if you don't like the iPod stuff, don't visit this site, simple as that
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by iPod owner
10. i just installed - pretty well featured and impressive i tried it a whie ago but that might of been before the installer was made.
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by conor
11. last 3 of 4 posts has been iPod. Then, 3 in the last week were Nintendo DS. Give us stuff we want, and not the stuff that has been out for 3 years (like Tivo hacks).
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Dennis
12. Is this site called iPod hack of the day..? I agree with poster #3 - just visit /.
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Dennis
13. >Is this for real? yep. iPodLinux is good stuff.
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Alex
14. According to the site: "With Mic record, however, one can speak into the left earbud of the iPod headphones...and record audio, without any additional attachments!" Is this for real?
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by teribhann
15. Yes, that would work. You can use pretty much every pair of headphones as a microphone, my roommate was using his sony DJ headphones for voice over stuff in Final Cut Pro.
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by matt
16. There's only so many things I want to do to the thing. I think this site has a great concept and so I've been addicted since the get-go. However give us something new and exciting, not the same repetetive crap. Change the text/graphics/etc on one certain device. Yes, I love it to death but for the love of god, lets have some change! We're not saying dump the ipod hacks, we're saying change it up a little. Don't have any more than 1 hack a week per any given device. Cheers.
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Jordie
17. I don't agree with the people sayu=ing to dump the ipod hacks, they are getting very cool, and if you're saying ... give us something that the majority of the readers can use for fscks sake!" ... then I am sorry santa didn't bring you one, but the number of people he did bring one for (or have one already) is pretty staggering.
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Shane
18. I agree. Enough of this IPOD crap, give us something that the majority of the readers can use for fscks sake!
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Jordie
19. >Posted Dec 28, 2004, 5:28 AM ET by Augobaugo >this killed my iPod! warning to everyone! the iPod-Linux installer did absolutely nothing bad to my ipod. it's bad enough that you are trying to scare people away from it, but could you give more detail if it _really_ did something wrong?
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by crumb
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1. how did u put your copyany logo on it
Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by jason