Comments on: iPhone gets the Linux treatment

By: David

David — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:03:06 +0000

Crap, I think I did it wrong…

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:47:23 +0000

My iPhone will never see sfdisk and Bash. Who wants to use a command line on the iPhone?

Just kidding.

Quick the geekery accomplishment. One more step to the convergence!

By: FuturDreamz

FuturDreamz — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:33:56 +0000

In other words: Do all your homework before buying something and do not rely on something that may happen, but there is no guarantee.

By: Likeabite

Likeabite — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:28:42 +0000

@ Zargon Why the cowon?

By: zargon

zargon — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:39:48 +0000

@likeabite – Yeah, if I wasn’t limited in my option being in a crunch on a trip, the Archos PMP would have been an option, but I think I would have gotten the Cowon Q5W.

@Trevor Long – Besides what I have already mentioned, actually being able to use it with out that bloated POS itunes, you could gain much more functionality. The main one being codecs, Apple is a DRM whore, using linux would all for the whole slew of codecs out there. Besides that, all the applications currently available to linux would be able to run (this is of course factoring in the iphone/ipod touch hardware limitations). It would also the very large and driven open source community behind it, which would me constant support and updates. You also would never have to pay for an update of features that should have been there in the first place.

By: Trevor Long

Trevor Long — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:30:01 +0000

seriously, i just ask myself… WHY WHY WHY..

what could this possibly achieve…

By: Mr Hopkins

Mr Hopkins — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:28:10 +0000

@ likeabite

i’ve seen that archos player and never gave it a second look….just checked the specs on it and that is one fly piece of machinery. Good look. Checking circuit city website now.

By: likeabite

likeabite — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:25:24 +0000

@ Zargon….It’s too late now but you should’ve gotten the archos 605…it has wifi, with a browser and acts a hard drive for music transfer.

By: zargon

zargon — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:55:48 +0000

@FuturDreamz – I did not need a new phone nor was I looking for that kind of commitment.

@jonathan p – The ipod is jailbroken and has been since 1.1.3. So I am not really worried about Apple blocking anything, they have no control over my ipod now, just waiting for the 3rd party community. They need to break Apple’s projection that prevents accessing the device as attachable storage.

By: jonathan p

jonathan p — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:41:40 +0000

Zargon – I wonder if any company is working on support for a 3rd party software, or if Apple has just blocked uploading files to the iPod touch altogether. Have you looked into dev-team to see if hacking the iPod touch could allow a 3rd party software to install files?

By: FuturDreamz

FuturDreamz — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:10:06 +0000

or the 9000 (Bold)?

By: FuturDreamz

FuturDreamz — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:08:26 +0000

@Zargon: Then why not just get a BlackBerry xx20 device?

By: zargon

zargon — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:02:46 +0000

I needed wifi to access the internet and at the time and currently to my knowledge, the Zune wifi does not have this ability.

By: coldcc

coldcc — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:37:07 +0000

Zargon should have bought a zune if he didn’t want itunes. Doesn’t the zune have wifi

By: celz

celz — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:30:08 +0000

if they got android to boot on an iphone with all features i might consider it.. but on the other hand id still rather have android on a wm phone..

By: jonathan p

jonathan p — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:42:21 +0000

Wow, perspective was a total ass and zargon did not once be one back. Kudos to zargon for trying to keep the net normal! Unfortunately, people seem to know other people because of a couple of posts on a forum/blog/etc.

By: zargon

zargon — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:05:57 +0000

Because I needed a wifi enabled device in a crunch on a business trip. With all the hacking that had been done, I figured I might as well get something that I could use later. I also hoped that like previous ipods, that you wouldn’t have to use itunes to transfer media.

That hasn’t been accomplished yet without using SSH over wireless, I am still holding out for a USB solution. Maybe if Apple would get their head out of their ass, they would realize that not everyone needs to download 65 megs of mostly worthless and bloated application, never mind the large updates that come out on a regular basis, maybe we just need something that will allow us to transfer media to the device and that it all. If Apple would release a application like that, I think a lot people would be happy, but we all know that won’t happen and that we will have to wait for the hacking community to do that for us.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:57:06 +0000

Joe like anyone cares that you know how to spell first. I bet soon you will see Android OS on the I phone won’t that be funny.

By: Perspective

Perspective — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:48:27 +0000

Zargon: Seriously, why did you even buy the thing? There are other players out there, and I’m sure you knew about iTunes when you bought the thing (unless you’re a tool, which based on the illogic of your post sounds possible).

By: zargon

zargon — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:14:28 +0000

Hopefully, soon I can complete get rid of the bloated piece of shit known as itunes to transfer music to our ipod touch.