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4G iPodLinux Installer 0.4

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The 4G iPodLinux Installer installs iPodLinux onto your 4th generation iPod, iPod photo, and iPod mini with no hassle.

Warning: running iPodLinux on your iPod is completely unsupported by the iPodLinux team! Please be sure to read the included Read Me before running the installer.

From the developer of 4G iPodLinux Installer:

"There is a TON of information about iPodLinux, what it can and cannot do at the iPodLinux website: http://www.ipodlinux.org - I would highly recommend everyone who installs iPodLinux read through the site, or don't bother using the software,

What's New

Version 0.4:

A Mac formatted iPod is now required to use this installer. If your iPod is Windows formatted, use the iPod Updater utility to reformat for Mac.

Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, iPod (4th generation model).

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wporquet commented on 07 Dec 2005

The installer worked fine for me on my iPod Mini. I noticed only a couple of glitches:
- on boot, I saw briefly a "happy Mac" type graphic flash on the screen, but it was slightly garbled (maybe a screen size difference?)
- Rose Quartz Box will always crash after the first tone, requiring a reboot

Otherwise, it looks good and it sounds good!

[Version 0.4]

Anonymous reviewed on 23 Nov 2005

Features: This thing has tons of features. I have it on my Mini. It comes with a good amount of games, somewhere around 10 or 15, I think. It has a modified version of Tetris, Chess, Tic Tac Toe, Tunnel, and tons of other amusing games. It also has some really cool extra downloads from other people, including idoom, which is a version of Doom one for the Ipod, which is pretty cool. (www.idoom.com)
It also allows you to display pictures. They don't look GREAT on the mini, but hey, they're pictures.

Ease of use:This is very easy to use. The only reason I give it a four is because I had a bit of trouble in the beginning. I installed it onto my mini. When I booted into Linux, it gave me a kernel panic. I decided to try to uninstall it then reinstall. However, it said that it wasn't installed at all. I did another install, and it worked fine.
Other than that, it was easy to get up and running.

Value: Free, duh.

Stability: I've had a few problems with stability, but nothing major. If you ever get frozen, you can just boot back into either OS.

[Version 0.4]

Anonymous reviewed on 29 Sep 2005

Beautiful. Installed and booted on a 4G standard non-photo non-mini model. I get occasional freezes in and around recording and playback but everything else is rock solid, even AAC playing.

[Version 0.4]

Anonymous reviewed on 28 Sep 2005

I rock much better then apple iPod OS but But i like the color of the normal OS but it worth it!!

[Version 0.4]

Anonymous reviewed on 21 Sep 2005

I installed it on my 20GB 4G iPod and it went great. My songs display but when I try and play them the iPod locks up. I successfully recorded using "Mic Record" and my left earbud (I don't have any other mic!) I am happy with it but will be happier when it is bug free further down the development path. It is worth installing it just for the cool and wow factor for me!

[Version 0.4]

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Marc Opperman replied on 01 Dec 2005

I get the same result when trying to access my music. iPod locks up. I also have a 4th gen. 20 gb iPod.

Anonymous reviewed on 24 Aug 2005

Well... I installed it on a 2nd gen mini iPod.

Installation went fine and it works 'fine'. It obviously has some bugs that makes it a bit hard to use, but we are talking about release 0.3

So, yeah... so far you wouldn't get a real benefits from using iPodLinux but it's always interesting to see in action; the development team did a good job. I bet that at the beta stage it will be much better!

[Version 0.4]

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Anonymous commented on 24 Aug 2005

"release 0.3" is referring to the installer. There is no official version number for the actual iPodLinux. Please don't associate the installer version with the version of iPodLinux running on your iPod -> no association at all :)

Anonymous reviewed on 24 Aug 2005

Awesome. I had just installed the last version yesterday and already a new one. Installing this one fixed a problem I was having with my settings not saving properly (had to reset contrast, wheel sensitivity, etc everytime) Now it works really well. The dialer program seemed to lock up when I was doing a lot of going in and out of programs checking things out, but a quick reboot fixed it just fine. This release added more games too. All in all very very easy to install, uninstall, and have a good time with.

[Version 0.4]

Anonymous reviewed on 19 Aug 2005

Installation was great. Unfortunately it didn't work for me. I got a menu on my 4G, but neither the songs nor playlists display. Also, I couldn't set the time. Maybe there were other problems, but I didn't take the time to check for other disfunctionalities, because if it you can't access the songs, what's the point?

[Version 0.3]

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Anonymous commented on 20 Aug 2005

So is the 2/5 stars for iPodLinux or the installer? Please rate the actual program, not iPodLinux itself :)

Anonymous reviewed on 19 Aug 2005

This is great!! I installed from a Linux OS until now which is considerably more difficult. Here you get a one-click-install that just works. Everybody go and try it out. Installing/unistalling works like a charm. Absolutely hassle-free.

[Version 0.3]

Anonymous reviewed on 19 Aug 2005

Wow, this is awesome. I was hesitant to do this at first due to some shady reviews, but I decided to go ahead and go for it. It was so simple to install, I'm booting Linux or Apple whenever I want. The games that come with podzilla are pretty sweet. My one complaint (it could've been my fault) was that when I first went to "playlists" for some reason all of my playlists had been duplicated. Whatever this is really cool and worth a download, props to the developer!

[Version 0.3]

ibook700 had trouble on 04 Jul 2006

I have a new iPod Nano... i've tried everything... installing updates, and everything but the program won't work. Is the iPod Nano 1GB not supported, and if not is there another program?

[Version 0.4]

oneida had trouble on 01 Mar 2006

installed latest version on a 20g 4th Gen primarily for the microphone recording capability.
This worked once, which was very exciting, but always froze several times thereafter.instead of playing back. Seems to freeze for at least two hours. So Zero out of Ten.

[Version 0.4]

teacloud had trouble on 03 Feb 2006

Hello all, Linux works great on my ipod 4g non photo, Kudos to the developer. I have one issue though, my ipod will not mount any more, even when i revert back to the Apple firmware on the ipod. Any suggestions anyone?

[Version 0.4]

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