I'm going to buy an iPod

Some how I don't feel right about buying it, but those little iPods, with their small form factor and 20GB of space, are just what I need to have my music with me in the car and at the office. Really, I do not trust my employer not to snoop around on my PC, so I better take my mp3's with me. I've noticed that there are special addition iPods like that U2 ipod version or fancy color ones -- I am not going to go for any of that, it goes against my sensibilities. Yet, I really think Apple did something very smart with this little music player.

I wonder what is inside the ipod? Is it a ppc board? I imagine people will be putting Linux on there eventually. Speaking of which, these ipods should be mountable so that I can easily put my music on them from my Linux PC?

By cfdisk99 at 2005-01-26 17:01 | cfdisk99's blog | login or register to post comments

You're just in time...

Well now would be a good time to do it ;) But they've already put Linux on the Ipod. check out www.ipodlinux.org

Yes Ipods do seem pretty amazing...Its a really expensive hard drive...
Enjoy.

-william
tronik @ #damnsmalllinux irc.freenode.net

By tronik at Wed, 2005-01-26 18:26 | login or register to post comments

Have you considered an iRiver?

Have you considered something from the iRiver H300 series?

They are cheaper than the ipod, play more filetypes, and are 100% linux compatible. no tweaks required. Not to mention all the cool features. And I think the iriver has better sound than the ipod. and that's saying a lot!

And, if you dump the crappy US firmware for the Korean firmware, you can play .avi movies on it, and yes, everything is still in english.

I highly recommend the iRiver h3X0 with the K firmware. it rocks.

-J.P.

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