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Would you install Linux on your iPod?

I’m an eternal tinkerer, and wanted to know if there were any ways to hack my iPod to do different things. Well, I found iPod Linux which, and this shouldn’t come as much of a shock, is a project to install linux on your iPod rather than the standard interface it already has.

I’m fairly happy with Linux as an operating system, as I’ve said before, so I thought this was worth a look. But when I started looking into exactly what the benefits would be for me, a 5th Gen iPod owner, I was a little confused. It seems that none of the iPods that could be converted to Linux will retain all of the original functions (click on the feature table for a larger, readable version).

So, I’m wondering, has anyone out there actually made the jump to running Linux on their iPod? If so, did the benefits outweigh the costs? Do you find that the extra customization and flexibility is worth losing a few functions?

Basically, is it worth me trying this out? What do you think?

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