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The iPod can become a powerful recording device and game player, all for free with Podzilla.

Photography by Phillip Torrone

MOD YOUR POD

Enhance your iPod with a Linux upgrade.

By Phillip Torrone

Current estimates put the iPod population around 10 million. With that many brains banging on the same platform, a lot of weird mutations and modifications can crawl out of the muck, especially because the iPod is one of the more hackable players out there.

Here’s a roundup of just some of the benefits when you Linuxify your Pod.

Changing the iPod’s Operating System

Future civilizations will judge us by how many devices we had that ran Linux. Until recently, ...

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