There has been a lot of talk lately about installing a bootable linux on the iPod and I've been meaning to do some posts about it. If you do this, you can then have dual-boot functionality where the iPod will ask you which system you want to run. This is definitely cool, but at this stage, the benefits and capablilities of ipod linux is still limited. This endeavor is still for the "because it's there" crowd. However, I see that changing in the coming months. I think the movement will snowball as it works better and gains more followers. Just as the iPod linux gets really good and useful, Apple will smash it with a firmware update and it will all be for naught.