Thinking back to when I used to watch JR Ewing making phone calls on his mobile I can't begin to fathom what the people of that time would react like if somehow by time-travel show them whats going on today with hand-help devices, it is truly amazing in every way, more so that our lives are being constantly networked in an ever easier and more affordable way.

To me the Apple ipod touch is a prime example of how through standards and inter-cooperative manufacturing we can show just how good things are going to get in the future, I suppose the same is true for all technology.

Fact is, without the Apple inc. devices being as 'closed' as they are they would not be able to bring such products in first place, as with everything in life there's a price to pay and with Apple you gotta buy only Apple and nothing else...and of course you gotta run it on Microsoft Windows too. This is not a problem for me, personally I enjoy and make very good use of both products, but like many others have become accustomed to Linux being a very important part of my daily routine, sucks balls doesn't it?

Who here has been around long enough to take a wild guess at what is going to happen with Linux and these devices, and how do you think Apple will react if and when this happens?

TBH, all I need is remote desktop running on this itouch, anyone*evilgrin*?

Well there's an effort to get Linux booting on an iPod Touch. Last year they got the basics going (kernel, framebuffer, serial over USB etc). Not sure how far the project has been progressing since then though.

There is at least one VNC app for the iTouch, not sure how well they work with the latest firmwares though and to be blunt I'm not really interested, but they're there, at least. Worth a go if you really want it

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Thinking back to when I used to watch JR Ewing making phone calls on his mobile I can't begin to fathom what the people of that time would react like if somehow by time-travel show them whats going on today with hand-help devices, it is truly amazing in every way, more so that our lives are being constantly networked in an ever easier and more affordable way.

To me the Apple ipod touch is a prime example of how through standards and inter-cooperative manufacturing we can show just how good things are going to get in the future, I suppose the same is true for all technology.

Fact is, without the Apple inc. devices being as 'closed' as they are they would not be able to bring such products in first place, as with everything in life there's a price to pay and with Apple you gotta buy only Apple and nothing else...and of course you gotta run it on Microsoft Windows too. This is not a problem for me, personally I enjoy and make very good use of both products, but like many others have become accustomed to Linux being a very important part of my daily routine, sucks balls doesn't it?

Who here has been around long enough to take a wild guess at what is going to happen with Linux and these devices, and how do you think Apple will react if and when this happens?

TBH, all I need is remote desktop running on this itouch, anyone*evilgrin*?

If you want to control your computer from your ipod and you want something that works alright look up "Mocha VNC" if you want something thats better and around £10 ish then look up real jaadu vnc/jaadu rdp.
If you wanna control your itouch from your computer then that involves jailbreaking