iPod Linux is an operating system for Apple iPod. Like any other Linux operating systems, it is free, and open source. A lot of modules, are available,a lot of user interfaces, i.e the podzilla are available for selection. Currently it supports most of the iPod generations, except the newest ones. Rockbox is another OS, free and open source. iPodlinux is in the development phase, so a lot of things lacks, like the music has problems. Rockbox has good stable releases, with has very good feedbacks, and no problems to use. Both of them keeps developing, and a good future of iPod’s optional OSes can be seen, which make good utilizations of the hardware, and can cross the limitations which the Apple OS enforces. In this guide we will manually install iPodLinux and Rockbox along with the inbuilt Apple OS in an iPod Nano 1G using the latest iPodLinux Kernel and all. So get going and continue reading the whole article and triple boot your ipod.
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Triple Boot Your iPod
Puppy Linux 4.1
In this calorie-burning, fat-avoiding, health-conscious world, our poor computer gets loaded with gigabytes of fatty operating systems. Try to cut short the fat and you’ll end up either with a feeble OS unfit for regular use, or with a fairly small, but difficult-to-move alternative. The ultimate solution of a portable, fat-free desktop is made by setting free the small, thin Puppy on your disk and letting it manage your system and serve you with all the needed desktop applications.
GeeXboX 1.1
If you are planning to scrap out your old 200MHz PC with 64MB of RAM, and buy a brand new one, then there’s a buy one get one free offer going on. Buy a new computer get a home theater free and no conditions apply! Just Joking, its GeeXboX which will make your old junk machine transform into a powerful home theater PC.
Its a Live CD based Linux distribution with a jaw dropping size of 8.9MB. GeeXboX first development release was on December 2002. The project then was only capable of playing DivX movies. But it developed very fast and showed as the first public release on 16th May 2003 ( GeeXboX 0.90-1 ), which supported a lot of media formats other than DivX. This project was accepted in the Google Summer of Code 2007.
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Phoxis 