From the people that brought you the Classic to Video hack comes the hack that brings the iPod touch interface to the iPod video.

How to make your iPod touch work with gtkpod and the libgpod library. Involves jailbreaking your iPod.

Programmers have bypassed a new difficulty in providing Linux support for the latest-generation iPods.

Apple has never made it easy to use Linux on an iPod because the company prefers people use iTunes to access the media players -- and there isn't a Linux version.

The newest iPods, though, didn't work at all, according to the iPod-minus-iTunes blog. The database that the iPod uses to keep track of songs, videos, album art and other data was encrypted in the new models, the programmers said. That means Linux music-management software such as Amarok or Rhythmbox wouldn't work.

Quoted: Mike Ter Louw has brilliantly managed to port mt-daapd, the Firefly Media Server, to iPhone. Firefly makes use of your iPhone's built in mDNS/Bonjour media service to stream audio to iTunes. Any iTunes. The one running on your home computer. The one running on a friend's computer. Wherever. Stream from your iPhone to a quality audio system. Here's how it works.

Quoted: A new firmware hack aims to bring the new split-screen interface of the iPod classic and iPod nano (with video) to the fifth-generation iPod.