It is known that linux community always develops new linux distributions for the new applications. It was natural that somebody tries to create a linux distribution for Apple’s ipod. A German computer student had received as a Christmas gift one ipod. He decided to install the linux on this apple’s player. As a matter of fact the hardware on his apple player was giving him some trouble. This gave him the motivation for creating linux for ipod. A British software engineer had developed a program. It was this program that this German student studied. The beauty of the free spirit of creativity associated with linux is very well reflected here. In this program this German student found that ipod made a click sound when it followed a command. For every byte he made a new click sound. Then he loaded all these clicks on his computer. Based on these sounds he wrote a computer code. After twenty hours of coding he installed this mue-Clinux. Now he had audio applications and some simple games to run on his ipod. This is how the basic ipod linux had taken its birth.
First you boot this ipod linux kernel. Now what happens is that it takes place of ipod operating system automatically. Now lot many changes take place. For example podzilla is automatically loaded. There will be launcher for the additional programs. Now you get a video player. There is also image viewer. There is command line shell. There are games and emulators for video game consoles. There are programming demos also. What are the main features of this ipod linux?
Do you get the ipod like interface? The answer is yes. Does it have video playback with sound? The answer is yes again. It also has many games. Some of them are Tuxchess, chopper, step mania and many more others. It is not possible to give complete list here. You can get support for MP3 and some other playback also. Recording through this audio jack is of far superior quality as compared to that of the apple’s firmware recording quality. This ipod linux has color scheme support. This ipod linux also has ability play doom and doom2. Can this ipod linux run lot many emulators? It can. This ipod linux can run iBoy which is the Nintendo game boy emulator. This ipod linux also has game boy advance emulator. There is ability for ports of the multiple system emulators. On June 11, 2008 there was server transition for this ipod linux.
As with all linux applications there is always some steep learning curve associated with this ipod linux also. But for all those who are ready to take little bit of efforts, there is strong ipod linux community ready to help them in all ways.
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