IPodLinux or Similar for ITouch?

[christopher_m75038]

Hi All,
Is there any news on IPodLinux? I'm wondering if it will run on ITouch. I haven't seen anything recent on Google.

Thanks in advance!
Chris

[bigtomrodney]

The big two options for alternative an firmware/OS are Rockbox and iPodlinux (that you mentioned). To my knowledge no iPod from generation 6 onwards are supported yet as they use a new CPU and chipset.

When the support does come around, if you want to run a system that will just be an alternative firmware with more functionality I'd recommend Rockbox. I've been running it on my iRiver for a year or so and it really expanded the already wide functionality. It has a quicker boot, added decent database support and a host of other apps. It even added album art support to my low resolution greyscale screen

From what I understand iPodlinux is more of a general operating system that includes media playback, and as such is less tailored to being a media player.

As far as the iTouch is concerned I'm not sure that libgpod can even work with it to write music/data yet. I believe it's still read-only so that means pretty much any Linux app or 3rd party plugin on other platforms will not support it well yet. I would like to emphasise the yet part