Not yet supported.
They get almost no vendor support, and have to reverse engineer
everything. To (not) help, apple is kind enough to sign their bootloader
and encrypt the firmware.
I don't support Apple. They go out of the way to cripple their products
for all but their target consumer.
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 1:01 am, Eben King wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Paul Bransford wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 20:32 -0500, Eben King wrote:
>>> A person was considering getting me an iPod Touch for Christmas. My
>>> uncle
>>> has one, so I played with it a bit today. How's its usability with
>>> Linux?
>>> Can I transfer movies, images, programs, and music to it? I'm not
>>> concerned
>>> about contacts or URLs.
>
>> Your best bet is to find an iPod that runs Rockbox and give the Apple
>> crippleware the finger.
>>
>> Rockbox support status page:
>> http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TargetStatus
>>
>> More rockbox info:
>> http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WhyRockbox
>
> I don't see the iPod Touch listed on their "Ports" page. Does that
> mean it not (yet) supported? Or do I have the name wrong?
>
> --
> -eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81
>
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