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Installing Linux on your iPod just got a lot easier
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Aug 18th 2005 at 12:48AM
I absolutely live by Pod2Go from Kainjow Software. RSS feeds, Stickies, weather, etc. all sync up on my iPod now, pretty-as-you-please. But the lone developer of Pod2Go isn't content to just make one kickin' app, oh no. He's gone and made several lately, including a Windows screensaver (simulates the XP logo saver on your Mac, for fun I guess), and my new favorite: an easy-to-use iPodLinux installer. Previously you had to do all those scary, nasty manual steps to install Linux on the iPod. Lovely. Linux made, Mac simple.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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rkalajian said 11:15AM on 8-18-2005
Has anyone gotten this to work on the new color 20GB ipod? I install it but the screen just goes blank. It'll play music, but I have to fumble around the interface since I can't see anything.
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Sumit Chachra said 2:05PM on 8-18-2005
I can't seem to get it to work on my new 20GB iPod photo.
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Prateek said 3:44PM on 8-18-2005
How do you install this on your ipod (using windows)
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 12:38AM on 8-19-2005
Zon Wakest, in the comments of sister blog TUAW.com's writeup of this has a good link to help you guys out:
http://ipodlinuxinstl.sourceforge.net/
It wouldn't be Linux if installs went smoothly on all machines ;-)
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