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Linux on the iPod 180

An anonymous reader writes "Linux Devices reports that Linux now runs on an Apple iPod. Further information about the project can be found on the Linux on iPod Website." Still lacks features like power management and firewire support, but it's still a cool project. CT Ok it's a dupe. But it's still neat!
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  • by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @12:20PM (#5223252)
    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Linux on the iPod community when last month IDC confirmed that Linux on the iPod accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux on the iPod has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux on the iPod is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [sysadminmag.com] [sysadminmag.com] in th recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] [amdest.com] to predict Linux on the iPod's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux on the iPod faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux on the iPod because Linux on the iPod is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux on the iPod. As many of us are already aware, Linux on the iPod continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    Linux on the iPod leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Linux on the iPod. How many users of Linux on the iPod are there? Let's see. The number of Linux on the iPod versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Linux on the iPod users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Linux on the iPod posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put Linux on the iPod at about 80 percent of the Linux on the iPod market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Linux on the iPod users. This is consistent with the number of Linux on the iPod Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Linux on the iPod went out of business and was taken over by Linux on the iPod who sell another troubled OS. Now Linux on the iPod is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that Linux on the iPod has steadily declined in market share. Linux on the iPod is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux on the iPod is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Linux on the iPod continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux on the iPod is dead.

    Linux on the iPod is dying

    Troll 7 of 208 from the annals of the Troll Library [slashdot.org] .

  • by cowmix ( 10566 ) <<moc.liamg> <ta> <hcramm>> on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @12:21PM (#5223268) Homepage
    The dupe problem is getting much worse, not better..

    The same story HOURS apart.

    Arg!
  • by DrHogie ( 8093 ) on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @12:21PM (#5223273) Homepage Journal
    4 stories down on the front page -- is that a new record?
  • by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @12:22PM (#5223279)
    ... in order to turn off CmdrDupe's posts.
  • *DOH* (Score:2, Funny)

    by Shdwdrgn ( 162364 ) on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @12:22PM (#5223285)
    You know it's going to be a slow news day when they're duping articles that are still on the front page! Sheesh...
  • by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @12:23PM (#5223298)
    Y reports that Linux now runs on x. Further information about the project can be found on the Linux on x website. Still lacks features like a, b, and c, but it's still a cool project.
  • by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @12:24PM (#5223304)
    I hear they've got Linux running on the iPod. I think there's an article on Slashdot...
  • THAT'S IT! (Score:3, Funny)

    by EnglishTim ( 9662 ) on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @12:26PM (#5223322)
    That's it! CmdrTaco is viewing Slashdot on the screen of an iPod running Linux, which is why he never noticed that the story he's about to post was posted a couple of hours ago - the screen is too small to see them!
  • by llamaluvr ( 575102 ) on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @12:27PM (#5223332) Journal
    Well, I can't tell, since the site is slashdotted, but does this mean that there's already 2 Linux distros avialible for the Ipod?
  • include support for playing mp3s, using the controls or accessing the screen. But it _does_ run linux.

    In other news, Craftsman is making a new line of hammers made entirely out of wood. No support has been announced for iron or steel heads, either clawed or ball-peen. You can't hammer with them, but they ARE made out of wood.

    This was stupid the first time they posted it, too :).
  • by dr_dank ( 472072 ) on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @12:33PM (#5223401) Homepage Journal
    CmdrTaco is in the running for the role of Jimmy Two-Times for the remake of Goodfellas.

    Film at 11

    and again at 12.
  • by Master Rux ( 458819 ) on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @12:35PM (#5223415) Homepage
    I just read a story related to this on slashdot, that there's Linux on the iPod. I'm off to go post a story on slashdot about the story I just read on slashdot.
  • by CleverNickedName ( 644160 ) on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @12:38PM (#5223469) Journal
    Damn it Jim! Anybody can have a typo or two! :)
  • so? (Score:4, Funny)

    by sporty ( 27564 ) on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @12:58PM (#5223685) Homepage
    CT Ok it's a dupe. But it's still neat!


    Yes, it's neat, but it's still a dupe!
  • Wooo! (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonvmous Coward ( 589068 ) on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @01:10PM (#5223797)
    Alright!! Linux is running on an iPod! This means we can... uh...
  • by nEoN nOoDlE ( 27594 ) on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @01:57PM (#5224225)
    The same story HOURS apart.

    soon we'll reach the "dupe story event horizon" where duplicate stories will be posted at EXACTLY THE SAME TIME. Past that point, there will only be one story posted over and over again. It will probably be a dupe.
  • by FIT_Entry1 ( 468985 ) on Tuesday February 04, 2003 @08:58PM (#5227794)
    I wonder what sort of effect duplicate articles have on the Slashdot Effect? I'm looking forward to that essay.

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