Diferent operating system for ipod touch

[pete44444444]

Is it posible to put a very small linux based os on an ipod touch?

 

[Carrot007]

No, unfortunatly the current line up of ipods cannot run ipodlinux or rockbox, which unfortunatly means I must stick with my previous gen ipod.

I use rockbox personally and would love one of the new larger capacity classics but until I can run rockbox I will have to stay where I am because I am too lazy to re-encode my flacs into apple lossless.

 

[donaldj]

I too was a rockbox fan... It was amazing watching movies, or playing gameboy games on a 1.5" screen.

Returning to the question at hand, i suppose VNC is sort of an answer. It wirelessly connects you to your computer, and lets you view a live screenfeed, whilst letting you control mouse and keyboard. Its almost like running Windows, or Mac on your iPod... just a little choppier.

 

[Four20]

they will have to develop the display drivers, touch screen drivers(i imagine would be the hardest), and the hardware drivers(audio in and out, etc)

it /can/ be done. . .just not yet

 

[PMB]

personaly, i cant wait for this to happen, i want to see what the open source group can bring to the feild

 

[andybno1]

http://www.iphonelinux.org/index.php/Main_Page

unfortunately its still in the development stage

 

[donaldj]

Aren't they the people who helped develop Pwnage, and WinPwn?

 

[andybno1]

yep that be the same people

 

[pete44444444]

No, unfortunatly the current line up of ipods cannot run ipodlinux or rockbox, which unfortunatly means I must stick with my previous gen ipod.

I use rockbox personally and would love one of the new larger capacity classics but until I can run rockbox I will have to stay where I am because I am too lazy to re-encode my flacs into apple lossless.

What is rock box? I dont think i have heard of that before?

 

[donaldj]

Rockbox is a firmware for the old iPods (up to the Classic, and 2nd Gen Nano), and other various MP3 players... it supported a HUGE selection of games and plugins, including an Mpeg player, and a Gameboy emulator, for example.

It looked like crap, but it did what the normal iPod could do, and a lot more.

http://www.rockbox.org/

 

[pete44444444]

Can you put it on the ipod touch?

 

[andybno1]

Can you put it on the ipod touch?

nope you cant y would you with jailbreaking available and 3rd party apps the touch can do way more things than rockbox

 

[pete44444444]

good point