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iPodLinux

iPodLinux is a µClinux-based Linux distribution designed specifically to run on Apple Inc.'s iPod. When the iPodLinux kernel is booted it takes the place of Apple's iPod operating system and automatically loads Podzilla, an alternative GUI and launcher for a number of additional included programs such as a video player, an image viewer, a command line shell, games, emulators for video game consoles, programming demos, and other experimental or occasionally unfinished software.

Written in

C, assembly language

Linux (Unix-like)

2.3 (x86) / January 7, 2007 (2007-01-07)

see Compatibility

Monolithic (modified µClinux)

uClibc, BusyBox

GNU GPLv2+

www.ipodlinux.org

The project has been inactive since 2009, but its website is still online. Further development of free and open source software for iPods have continued with the Rockbox Project, zeroslackr, and freemyipod, which have largely supplanted iPodLinux. Some third party installers are still available.[1]

An iPod-like

user interface

Video playback with sound

Support for , MP3 and basic OGG playback (4G & 5G Music Player Daemon malfunctions, but can be fixed).

AAC

Many games, including TuxChess, Bluecube ( clone), Chopper, StepMania (a Dance Dance Revolution clone) and more.[2]

Tetris

Recording through at much higher quality than Apple's firmware

audio jack

Ability to play the games and Doom II (and presumably any Doom Total Conversion; Chex Quest for instance)

Doom

support

Color scheme

Ability to run many , such as iBoy (Nintendo Game Boy Emulator), iNES (Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator), iDarcNES (port of the multiple system emulator DarcNES), iMAME (port of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator), and iGPSP (Game Boy Advance emulator).

emulators

Besides the kernel, iPodLinux features as a primary component podzilla and podzilla2, applications which provide:

Linux on Apple devices

gtkpod

Rockbox

IPodLinux Project home page

[ Project home page] ( at the Wayback Machine (archived August 19, 2014))

mirror

on SourceForge

IPodLinux

Old project home page